Close Look at the Accelerating Rate of Unemployment
hf-implode.com 4/9/2009 — "The trend in unemployment is unmistakably up and accelerating. Let's start with a discussion of widely followed data followed by many additional charts that you may not have seen before."

There's Unemployment, and Then There's Unemployment
paul.kedrosky.com 1/11/2009 — I have been sent this Reuters story from yesterday umpteen times, so I may as well post it, as well as the underlying graph. The gist: If unemployment were being measured the same way as it was during the Depression, the U.S. would be well on its way ...

How Bad Will it Get?
economistsview.typepad.com 2/18/2009 — It's not looking good. Many people have been trying to make the case that the current downturn is no worse than the downturns in the 1970s and 1980s, but there's reason to think this downturn is following a different, more worrisome trajectory:  ...

Unemployment: WOW
market-ticker.denninger.net 3/6/2009 — Here's the Government's view of it: Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Payroll employment has declined ...

True Unemployment Numbers
philstockworld.com 7/9/2009 — Courtesy of John Lounsbury : The current official unemployment figure (9.5% for June) should be replaced (or at least supplemented) by a better measurement of actual unemployment. Unemployment should be measured in terms of hours worked by all employees, full-time and part-time. ...

Expect Seven Years of Subpar Growth and High Unemployment
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 7/18/2009 — BLS data shows Unemployment Rate Tops 10% In 15 States . Unemployment topped 10 percent in 15 states and the District of Columbia last month, according to federal data released Friday. The rate in Michigan surpassed 15 percent, the first time any ...

The Big Picture
bigpicture.typepad.com 9/30/2009 — Unemployment Reporting: A Modest Proposal (U3 + U6) Earlier this week, I received an email from the Real Estate editor of an (unnamed) publication. They wrote: "Just wanted to point out something I read in a Wall St. Journal article that made me think ...

The ‘Real’ Unemployment Rate
markettalk.newswires-americas.com 22 days ago — The ‘Real’ Unemployment Rate

Unemployment over 11%?
tvhe.co.nz 2/23/2009 — NZI has suggested that unemployment may go over 11% . Now although it sounds like this estimate is no more than random conjecture (the countries in the Rogoff study are not comparable to the New Zealand case), it is still worth putting what this means in some historical context. Source ( ...

Long-Term Unemployment
economistsview.typepad.com 11/1/2009 — [Calculated as the this divided by the this .]

Unemployed? Go Talk to Your Librarian. — The Big Money 4/7/2009
Since the economic downturn, libraries have become havens for job-seekers. One librarian explains how her responsibilities have changed from finding and stocking books to helping the newly unemployed: Our computer terminals began to fill up, ...