On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS) issues the Jobs Report. This report oftentimes is a predictor and influencer of future economic reports. For this and many other reasons, the rhetoric surrounding these reports ...
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Blog Post - December 28th, 2012
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Blog Post - December 10th, 2012
WealthCycles is all about measuring stuff with stuff, and taking the effects of the devaluing fiat currencies out of the equation. In an effort to paint a true picture of the well being of the average American worker, we took a look at real annual ea ...
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Feature - October 10th, 2012
In this piece we look at the broader trends in the unsustainable search for traction in climbing the slope of increasing debt taken on by consumers who are seeing rising outflows and declining total income.
There are over 4 million fewer full-time j ...
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Blog Post - October 7th, 2011
Despite the Obama administration’s insistence that its new stimulus legislation is the answer to the nation’s unemployment problem, an objective look at the numbers tells a different tale.
“According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, even if job cre ...
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Feature - May 25th, 2011
After years of popular despair over the alleged decline of U.S. manufacturing, recent rays of hope have appeared in the form of new start-up plants in parts of the Rust Belt, as reported by the Washington Post last week. In fact, the relocation of many ...
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Blog Post - October 12th, 2010
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics went to three academics who have explored the potential inefficiencies in labor markets. Classical economics is based on supply and demand—supply meets demand at a certain price point, meaning sellers and buyers agree t ...
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