by Andrew Moran | Jan 1, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Editor's Choice, Good Reads, Opinion
Legendary baseball player Yogi Berra famously said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Indeed, what used to be a time of looking forward to flipping the calendar has metastasized into a feeling of dread. If 2020 was horrific, 2021 was terrible,...
by Andrew Moran | Dec 26, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
If White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s closing statements of the year on the state of the US labor market are anything to go by, the upcoming year-end jobs report will be a combination of fantasy and fudging the numbers, with a soupçon of tomfoolery...
by Andrew Moran | Oct 7, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
Uncle Sam is hiring. Oh, you didn’t know? The September Jobs report clarified again that the government – federal, state, and local – has been the largest employment creator this year. When the Leviathan is spending nearly $7 trillion a year, it is inevitable that the...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 2, 2023 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
President Joe Biden took a victory lap heading into the Labor Day long weekend. Well, it was more of his two-second half-jog that the president usually does when he is about to speak at the podium. This time, Biden celebrated the August jobs report and touted how...
by Andrew Moran | Aug 5, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
For the last two years, the US labor market’s strength has allowed the current administration to insist the economy is “strong as hell.” Indeed, how could economic conditions be abysmal when the country is adding as many as 904,000 new jobs in a...