Month: February 2010

CHARTS: Payroll Gallery Extraordinaire

Welcome to the Horowitz Gallery of Extraordinary Payroll releases .. Spend some time looking, but do not touch as most of these numbers will certainly be revised shortly.

We will be updating this shortly as we are sure to get further updates and revisions from the BLS.

November nonfarm payroll revised higher...

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China: Giving a Hoot, Not to Pollute? (Cool Graphics)

China is part of the global Co2 emissions problem. So is the U.S and if you ask Al Gore, so are humans for breathing. (Well excuse me for breathing, Al!)

Today, there are a few companies that are involved with the clean up of the “dirty fuels,” but none that are...

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NFP Report Preview: Goldman Prediction is Outlier

There is a very recent divergence of the economists and analysts who are looking forward to the Friday NFP employment numbers. For some time there was unanimous consensus that we would see growth show up in the next NFP print.

But, after the lousy initial claims report that came out yesterday...

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Initial and Continuing Claims – Nasty Reports

No one was happy to hear that the initial claims ticked up again this week. Sure we are much better than back in March, but we cannot put aside that there are many spots of crabgrass sprouting up amongst the newly laid sod.

Moreover, the continuing claims also moved higher using...

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Free Trade Deals Shot Down – Every Man/Woman for Themselves!

Is this protectionism??

Perhaps, but maybe this is something that we should all be taking a bit more seriously. I am still very unclear how trade with Pakistan and Afghanistan help to improve employment. We already have thousands of employees in the region (aka soldiers) and that can be considered enough...

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