Here's the real unemployment rate
Williams recreates a ShadowStats Alternative unemployment rate reflecting methodology that includes the “long-term discouraged workers” that the Bureau of Labor Statistics removed in 1994 under the Clinton administration. The BLS publishes six levels ...
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Real US Unemployment Rate at 23.2%, not 5.5%
Real US Unemployment Rate at 23.2%, not 5.5%
... measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment. The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for January 2015 is 23.2%.
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Rosy jobless numbers cover up bad news
NEW YORK – As the Obama administration announced unemployment in June had fallen to 5.3 percent, respected economist John Williams, the author of Shadow.stats.com, argued in his private subscription newsletter that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' rosy ...
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Public “Affairs” – Government Employees Found on Ashley Madison
Public “Affairs” – Government Employees Found on Ashley Madison
15,000 of them were government employees from more than 20 federal agencies. The list included several Department of Justice lawyers and an IT specialist from the Department of Homeland security who used personal emails but accessed government computer ...
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PERSPECTIVE: What do government figures mean?
Some say we are still in a recession and others say we are coming out despite a 1.8 percent rate of growth and an arguable “5.3 percent unemployment rate.” Arguable, yes! I refer to the use of statistics and numerical figures and how they are used in ...
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CAPITAL GRAINS: Record wheat crop in Kurdistan region
As of July, over 802,000 tons of wheat was purchased by the government, according to ministry of commerce, at a price of $ 660 per ton, equivalent to more than $ 531.6 million. In addition to other revenues, the KRG says the region's farmers produced at ...
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India's Banks Need the Tools to Get Tough
India's Banks Need the Tools to Get Tough
The cost of defaulting -- often willfully -- simply isn't high enough, thus creating a systemic moral hazard. There are two ways to attack this problem. First, India needs a modern bankruptcy law that can break the cycle of continuous restructuring and ...
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Big banks greatest threat: non-banks
Yet even better-aligned banks, which hold most assets to maturity (rather than selling them to investors), are not immune to moral hazards. During the week the Australian Securities and Investment Commission reported that after reviewing lending ...
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