13 Aug 2014

Despite big yawn from bond market, job openings point to continued improvement in non-farm payroll

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What is going on in the jobs market the past several months is reviving hopes that better days are ahead. There is a lot we can point to in order to validate how anemic the recovery has been post-Great Recession.  … Continued

12 Jun 2014

NFIB respondents’ comp plans portend better days ahead, should we trust?

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One of the ways the current U.S. economic recovery has seriously diverged from past recoveries is the lack of solid progress on the wage front. In May, year-over-year percent change in average hourly earnings of private-sector employees (seasonally adjusted) came … Continued