This is the Recovery – The Worst Ever
from Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog Does this chart portray an economic recovery in any way? Wages have been…
Questions to Ponder
If you are still not quite awake to all that is really going on, perhaps these questions will start you thinking…
Q2 GDP Smoke & Mirrors Show & This Is Not a Recovery
Analysts’ projections had been all over the place from 3-4-5% down to negative 3-4-5%. And you may ask how can…
What’s Lurking Beneath The Glossy Veneer Of The Jobs Report?
The jobs report has little value if we don’t peer beneath the glossy veneer. On the surface, last week’s jobs…
June Full-Time Jobs Plunge By Over Half A Million, Part-Time Jobs Surge By 800K, Most Since 1993
June Payrolls Surge 288K, Above Expectations, Unemployment Rate Tumbles To 6.1% Is this the reason for the blowout, on the…
Is It 1984? Recovery = 12.8 Million People Not In The Labor Force
In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth is diligent in constructing and constantly reworking their version of reality to feed to the…
Stocks Surge To Record Highs On Worst Economic Growth In 3 Years
US Economy Shrank By 1% In The First Quarter: First Contraction Since 2011 And this was the news of the…
Ukraine: Escalating Tensions
As the events in Ukraine develop at an ever-quickening pace it is getting harder to keep up. US Secretary of…
The Data Right in Front of Your Eyes Exposes the Real Economy
On Friday morning my first glance at the CNBC app showed a headline reading to the effect: Market Mostly Unchanged…
Minimum Wage: Solution or Pacifier ?
Halfway through his second term as President, Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union Address announced his solution…