Tag Archives: January 2025

[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat To review briefly, the monthly JOLTS reports give us a more granular look at the employment sector, but are delayed by one month vs. the jobs report. Like the jobs reports, most JOLTS series have shown deceleration for several years. The question over the last year has been whether they […] The post January JOLTS report: monthly increases, but significant downward revisions to 2024 appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]January CPI: a new paradigm, with the reappearance of some old suspects  – by New Deal democrat Needless to say, January’s increase of 0.5% in consumer prices was not welcome. And there was a changing of the guard somewhat, as several of the old suspects (food and energy) made new appearances. Some of the spike […] The post January’s CPI increase of 0.5% in consumer prices was not welcome and . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by New Deal democrat There’s no new significant news until Wednesday, so let’s catch up graphically with a few important items from Friday’s employment report for January. As I wrote then, probably the most important developments weren’t in the monthly numbers, but rather the annual revisions to both the Establishment and Household Surveys.  For […] The post The Big Convergence: scenes from the January...