US Jobs

US Jobs
Friday, July 8, 2022
Another big payroll number, another big beat. The village steadfastly refuses to destroy itself. Lieutenant Powell is just going to have to save it.
US Jobs
Friday, June 3, 2022
The retail conundrum continues. Another great jobs report -- except that the retail sector shed 60,000 payrolls.
US Jobs
Friday, May 6, 2022
428,000 net payroll gains doesn't exactly point to an imminent recession.
US Jobs
Friday, April 1, 2022
The unemployment rate now just 15 bp from the died-and-gone-to-heaven pre-pandemic benchmark -- and it's that good for every ethnic, gender and education-attainment group. 
US Jobs
Friday, March 4, 2022
A good payroll number. But an unbelievably good payroll number on top of January's unbelievably good payroll number, which was slightly revised higher. Huh?
US Jobs
Friday, February 4, 2022
This is officially the strangest damn jobs report in history.
US Jobs
Friday, January 7, 2022
A big miss for payrolls, but again the "household survey" tells a more optimistic story.
US Jobs
Friday, December 3, 2021
A miss according to the payroll survey. But a booming beat according to the household survey.
US Jobs
Friday, November 5, 2021
The best part is the big upward revisions to August and September, making them not quite the train-wrecks they first seemed to be.
US Jobs
Friday, October 8, 2021
Nice upward revisions to last month's big miss -- but this one is still another miss. 

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