ritholtz.com - 5/10/2009
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Bob Bronson took a closer look at what the Unemployment data was suugesting. His view: Continuing Claims are contradicting the widely accepted view that “Less Bad Emplyment data = end of recession.”
Bronson:
“Continuing Claims reported [Friday] suggest the ...
dol.gov - 5/14/2009
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dol.gov —
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA
In the week ending May 9, the advance figure...
for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 637,000, an increase of 32,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 605,000. The 4-week ...
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ETA Press Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly ...
rortybomb.wordpress.com - 5/8/2009
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rortybomb.wordpress.com —
A statistics from that paper that still shocks
me: roughly 28% of all mortgages defaults, and 60%...
of all subprime defaults, were mortgages that started with a prime mortgage. Approximately 30 percent of the 2006 and 2007 foreclosures in Massachusetts ...
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Unemployment: The Other Shoe Dropping
calculatedriskblog.com - 5/14/2009
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calculatedriskblog.com —
The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims
: In the week ending May 9, the advance...
figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 637,000, an increase of 32,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 605,000. The 4-week moving ...
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Unemployment Claims: Continued Claims Surge Past 6.5 Million
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... the rally while it lasts, butexpect to take a sucker punch - Telegraph • Rosenberg: Goodbye, Thank You, Yes It's Just A Sucker's Rally - ClusterStock • Free Fall’s Over, but Where Are We Landing? - NY Times • The Dynamically-Hedged Economy II - Noland, Prudent Bear • Are stocks a loser's bet? - CNN/Money ECONOMY • Life on unemployment - CNN/Money • 9 signs the economy is recovering - Daily News • Continuing Claims vs. Economically Lagging Unemployment - TBP • Shift to Saving May Be ...
Continuing Claims vs. Economically Lagging Unemployment
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... bargaining.” (WSJ.com, Clusterstock)
“I would therefore think that the Fed might be somewhat concerned by the surge in commodity prices over the last few weeks.” (Econbrowser)
Ten reasons to be cheerful about the economy. (Telegraph.co.uk)
More thoughts on the employment report. (Econbrowser, Big Picture, The Stash)
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