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Bill Dunkelberg Comments on the Unemployment in the US and the Sentiments of Small Businesses
Commentary by Bill Dunkelberg The September employment report was pretty much as expected, 114,000 new jobs in the payroll survey. That was consistent with the NFIB survey findings (the job loss of -.25 workers per firm, 10 percent increasing employment but 13 percent reducing staff, job openings and job creation plans falling, indicating a higher [...]
Read moreRocky Mountain Summit: July 2012
by John E. Silvia, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo Securities If you keep getting the wrong answer, then maybe you are asking the wrong question. For several years now, policymakers have been pursuing expansionary policy with the goal of significantly lower unemployment. Yet the wrong answer keeps popping up – high, persistent unemployment about eight percent. [...]
Read moreMcVean Weekly Economic Update
By Michael Drury, chief economist, Taylor Somerville, CFA, senior Economist, and Vadim Sinitsyn, associate economist Volume 64, Number 4 July 27, 2012 The Euro crisis is once again at the forefront as Spain is threatened with becoming the latest and largest country exiled form the credit markets. Spanish long term interest rates spikes up to [...]
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