The Liberator Today

I am going to get a little wonky in this article. If you don't want to read the details, here is the summary: Older folks (55+) are stay...

The new normal is revealed in two graphs.   The first graph is the employment ratio comparing number employed to the total population. It dr...

The markets reacted badly to the jobs report released yesterday , but I think that there was a bit of an overreaction. Why? It was really...

Not since 1981 has the national labor participation rate been this low. Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge put up this graph : Despite a few upticks...

Well, this is hardly Good Friday good news. The BLS labor force participation rate , the only economic statistic I follow from the governme...

This month's jobs news from the administration is that unemployment remained steady at 8.3%. Of course this isn't being trumpeted a...

The President said that the economic recovery is speeding up, based on the reported jump in jobs created and a dropping unemployment rate. ...

This morning's headlines, before Herman Cain* dropped out of the Presidential race, was that unemployment had declined to 8.6%. I was i...