At last, a beat in payrolls. But the "Household Survey" doesn't agree, with a dove-friendly uptick in the unemployment rate.
US Jobs
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Friday, June 4, 2021
The labor force shrinks as the economy re-opens. We all know what's going on here. All together: we're paying people more not to work than to work.
US Jobs
Friday, March 5, 2021
A big beat, led by the reopening-sensitive leisure sector even in a frigid winter.
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Friday, February 5, 2021
A miss, but the real story is that labor market is basically unchanged -- frozen in the "dark winter" of Covid before the coming boom.
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Friday, January 8, 2021
A catastrophe in the lockdown-sensitive leisure sector. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...
US Jobs
Friday, December 4, 2020
A miss versus consensus, with the recovery-critical retail sector shedding jobs.
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Friday, November 6, 2020
A nice beat on top of upward revisions to prior months. Long live the V.
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Friday, October 2, 2020
Hard to grasp but it's true -- a blockbuster jobs number like 661,000 payrolls actually means the jobs market cooled down a bit.