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:  ...

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. ...

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

500,000 Will Exhaust Unemployment Benefits by September, 1.5 Million by Year-end
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 7/20/2009 — The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program began in June 30,2008. Benefits under the act have now been extended twice. Unless Obama extends the program a third time, it's the end of the line for many receiving unemployment benefits. Please ...

Weekly Unemployment Claims Portend Disaster
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 8/1/2009 — The Department of Labor Weekly Unemployment Report is now so skewed by abnormalities, it is difficult to get a clear picture. First, let's take a look at the data. Seasonally Adjusted Data In the week ending July 25, the advance figure for seasonally ...

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 ...

A Look at Unemployment
valueplays.blogspot.com 6/3/2009 — Have been tracking the jobs information since last August. Three categories are paramount for me. Non-farm payrolls (the total), private and government. What interests me the most of the three is not the total number each month of job declines but the percentage change that number represents ...

Unemployment and inflation
econbrowser.com 10/21/2009 — Does high unemployment mean that there's nothing to worry about in terms of inflation? Since I'll be trying to answer this question quantitatively using some equations, I'll begin with some notation. Let u t denote the unemployment rate as of the ...