Nov 7 2008
The October 2008 Job Report: Digging Deeper into the Data. True Unemployment Rate at 11.8%.
Trying to explain the unemployment rate is a challenge since there are many nuances to look out for. For example, today the unemployment rate came out at 6.5%, the highest since March of 1994. That would be troubling in itself. What was also released in the report is a horrible number of 240,000 jobs being [...]
May 8 2008
Owners’ Equivalent of Rent: The Fed and BLS Gaming the System.
It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that consumer prices are rising at an incredibly rapid pace. If you were to only look at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) CPI numbers you would think that inflation is hovering around 3 to 4 percent. Of course this is utterly devoid [...]
