Category Archives: Employment

Where Are U.S. Veterans Employed?

The Global Macro Monitor sends a big shout out and a huge thank you to all the Vets out there.   Thanks for your service and great sacrifice you’ve made for all of us. Here some some interesting data from … Continue reading

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Hours of Work Needed to Buy the S&P500

Here is an interesting take on the valuation of the S&P500 by our friends over at The Chart Store, who do excellent work.  Their chart shows that it now takes 69.23 hours at the average hourly wage of $19.53 to … Continue reading

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Nonlinear Thinking: Robot Run Warehouses

Here’s an interesting video clip that reinforces our view that almost all new innovation and technology is labor saving/destroying and that U.S. unemployment is much more structural than most perceive (click here to view video).   Even the military, with the … Continue reading

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Employment & Wage Trends in New York City

Great data from from the BLS.   The average annual wage in New York’s financial industry more than tripled from 1990 to 2009.  These numbers, even though employment in the industry declined by close to 20 percent,  makes us want to … Continue reading

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U.S. Payroll Employment By Industry, October 2011

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Fareed: Niall Ferguson and Jeff Sachs Square Off on OWS

Nice rumble between Sachs and Ferguson.  Well worth your time. (click here if video is not observable)

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One Factor Behind the High U.S. Unemployment Rate

The following chart is the most recent sixty-five-nation Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which shows the United States came in 15th in reading, 23rd in math and 31st in science.  This is one of the factors driving the high … Continue reading

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U.S. Economy Stuck in a Dog House

We stumbled upon this interesting chart from the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s 2011 Annual report which shows the share of owner equity in household real estate.  It surprised us, not so much in that it is at record lows, but … Continue reading

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U.S. September Job Creation by Industry

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Spain and Italy Services PMI Continue to Contract

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