Daily Brief: Job Openings Hold at 7.1 Million as America’s Labor Shortage Entrenches
JOLTS shows 7.1M openings and flat hiring. September payrolls added just 29K. The worker shortage has gone structural and the math is getting worse.
Daily Brief: September Jobs Miss Badly — Only 29K Added as Hiring Cools
Employers added just 29K jobs in September, a massive miss against 90K expected. Unemployment rose to 4.2% as markets rallied on fading rate-hike odds.
Daily Brief: 7.3 Million Openings, Half a Million Missing: America’s Labor Shortage
The U.S. has 7.3M job openings but a shrinking workforce. Construction needs 500K workers. Manufacturing faces a 2.1M gap by 2030. Here's where it...
Daily Brief: The Week the Fed’s Bet Gets Tested
Jobs, PCE, ISM, and GDP all drop this week in the most consequential data gauntlet since the Fed's September rate hike. Here's what to watch.
Daily Brief: Jobless Claims Slip to 197K as US Labor Market Refuses to Blink
Initial claims fell to 197K against a 200K consensus. With PMIs surging and continuing claims flat, the US labor market is a fortress.
Daily Brief: 7.3 Million Jobs Are Open. Where Are the Workers?
7.3M job openings, 162K new payrolls, but a quit rate near historic lows. The U.S. labor market is healthy on paper — so why won't anyone move? This...
Daily Brief: 7.3 Million Job Openings Meet 349,000 Missing Construction Workers — The Labor Shortage Isn’t Going Anywhere
JOLTS shows 7.3M openings against 5.1M hires. Construction needs 349,000 workers. Manufacturing's humming. The structural labor shortage persists — and...
Daily Brief: Quits Rate Hits 1.9% as 7.3M Openings and a Worker Shortage Leave the Labor Market Frozen
The quits rate hit 1.9% — the lowest in a decade — as 7.3M openings, a frozen labor force, and 349K needed construction workers reveal a market that...
Daily Brief: Jobs Smash Forecasts — Payrolls Surge by 162K in August
August payrolls surged by 162,000 — triple the consensus — as upward revisions erased July's losses. The labor market isn't cracking. Next week's CPI...
Daily Brief: ADP Shows Just 38K Jobs Added in August as Hiring Slows to a Crawl
Private employers added just 38,000 jobs in August — a 9,000 miss below consensus and the slowest month since January. Manufacturing shed 17,000....