Official “Labor Market Conditions” Give off First Warning Signs by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2016 • 10 Comments Until now, jobs metrics were immune to worsening economic malaise.
Why This Economy Is Now Running Aground by Wolf Richter • Apr 13, 2016 • 62 Comments Business sales worst since 2012, inventories at crisis level, jobs next.
This Shows Why Consumers Are Bogged Down by Wolf Richter • Apr 4, 2016 • 32 Comments The stagnation zone.
If This Plays Out, Friday Will Get Ugly by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2016 • 40 Comments A “Warning about March Nonfarm Payrolls”
And this is When the Jobs “Recovery” Goes Kaboom by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2016 • 52 Comments A party pooper showed up.
Schlumberger Loses $1 Billion, Raises Layoffs to 30,000, Doubles Share Buybacks to $20 Billion by Wolf Richter • Jan 21, 2016 • 31 Comments A good swig of financial engineering to make the results go down better.
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession by Wolf Richter • Jan 15, 2016 • 55 Comments It’s getting painful: only exceptions were in the early 1950s.
Why’s the Fed Talking up the (Lousy) Economy Just Now? by Larry Kummer • Dec 15, 2015 • 22 Comments They desperately want to raise rates, but….
