Tag Archives: unemployment
Where Will All the Cubicle Dwellers Go?
College degrees in America have been the ultimate insurance policy for well over one hundred years. They offered a clear path from graduation cap to corner office, or at a minimum, a stable white-collar entry-level job. Now that path is obstructed by mud and ruts. Continue reading
Circa: Now!
America’s economic landscape is becoming littered with one steaming pile after another. The primary offenders include consumer price inflation, interest rates, gross domestic product, and unemployment. Here we’ll take a sniff of the unpleasant odor that’s wafting around us. Continue reading
An Open Letter to William Dudley
Dear Mr. Dudley, Your recent remarks in the wake of last week’s FOMC statement were notably unhelpful. In particular, your excuses for further rate hikes to prevent crashing unemployment and rising inflation stunk of rotten eggs. Crashing Unemployment Quite frankly, … Continue reading
Bear Witness to the Madness
Second-rate economic data is first-rate news for Wall Street these days. We don’t quite comprehend the logic. But the popular reasoning goes something like this… Good economic data is bad for stocks. For it means the Fed will begin increasing … Continue reading
