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Tag: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
How Retailers Like Walmart Pass on Tariffs to the Public
After listening to Peter Navarro bark like a trained seal on Bloomberg Television this afternoon, I fear this brief thread is more necessary than ever. […]
The Hurricanes Were NOT the Cause of the Bad NFP Report
The media, especially the financial and mainstream media, once again interjected politics to proclaim that the Boeing strike and two major hurricanes hitting the US […]
11.01.24 Non-Farm Payrolls Guess: Pulp Fiction
The recent data series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reads like a paperback romance novel with […]
BLS Delivers Another Masterful Work of Propaganda
Last night when this author penned a piece predicting what would be a normalized estimation for the non-farm payrolls report, there was little indication of […]
Is it Data, Methodology, or Just Propaganda
For those who are not part of the so called FinTwit (Financial Twitter/X), political, or economic blogosphere a very important debate is raging regarding not […]
Inflation is Still a Volckerian Problem for the Fed
In the days of old, before the media propaganda went insane, a just and wise emperor of the Fed named Paul Volcker gave us stable […]
The Data Mirage from the BLS Continues
Over the past few decades, these pages and in some of the commentary I have offered elsewhere has been somewhat harsh analyzing the data emanating […]
The Faith in Models Will be America’s Undoing
For the long time followers of these pages dating back to 2007, this opinion piece shall not come as a major shock or surprise. But […]
The Cumulative Inflation Dilemma
The media and the Fed seem to have declared victory over inflation this week. If this is your first experience with inflationary periods like this, […]
NFP Preview with a Warning
Ladies and gents, this has been the week of circus clown performers and data as earnings roll in on top of pump and dump artists […]