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  • Business Cycle Indicators: CES/CPS Employment Surges
  • DC Edit | Growth Up, Focus Now on Jobs
  • Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics

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econbrowser.com /1 month ago

Business Cycle Indicators: CES/CPS Employment Surges

Evidence of continued growth: Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold orange), industrial production (red), personal incom...

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deccanchronicle.com /1 month ago

DC Edit | Growth Up, Focus Now on Jobs

Robust GDP growth masks uneven sectoral performance and highlights the need for more labour-intensive jobs.

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nebraskaexaminer.com /1 month ago

Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more t...

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wichitaliberty.org /1 month ago

August 2026 Jobs Report: Growth Slowing as Labor Market Cools

August 2026 employment grew 162,000 jobs and unemployment held at 4.1%. A slowdown from spring suggests the labor market is easing, with tech sector weakness offsetting modest gain...

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ncnewsline.com /1 month ago

Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more t...

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recruitingheadlines.com /3 days ago

Labor Demand Gains Momentum as Hiring Timelines Extend in Q3 2026

The number of unique active jobs rose by (+6.71%) to 8.75 million in Q3 2026, as employers resumed hiring activity amid stabilizing consumer spending and easing inflation concerns....

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realinvestmentadvice.com /1 month ago

Productivity On Gilligan’s Island: Episode 2

Over 7 years ago, we wrote a piece using the 1960s TV sitcom Gilligan's Island to provide a simple example of why productivity is the most important driver of economic growth. In t...

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econbrowser.com /1 month ago

Business Cycle Indicators: Industrial, Manufacturing Production under Consensus

IP flat, below +0.3% m/m Bloomberg consensus, manufacturing -0.3% below +0.3%. Capacity utilization drops. Adding in monthly GDP, early benchmark NFP as well. Figure 1: NFP employm...

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reneweconomy.com.au /3 weeks ago

Productivity has been weak. Mining and construction are the main culprits, just look at diesel and LNG

I first realised there was a problem with coal productivity when looking at diesel consumption, which is up about 70% per saleable tonne. The post Productivity has been weak. Mini...

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recruitingheadlines.com /2 weeks ago

UCLA Anderson Forecast Sees Resilient Growth Despite Inflation, Weak Labor Market

The UCLA Anderson Forecast’s September 2026 outlook finds an economy that has largely weathered a series of disruptions, with economic growth remaining resilient, even as inflation...

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econbrowser.com /1 month ago

A Dropoff in Manufacturing Employment?

From the ADP release: Figure 1: Change in manufacturing employment since 2025M01 from BLS (blue), preliminary benchmark revision from BLS (light blue square), from ADP (green). Ora...

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econbrowser.com /3 weeks ago

The Employment Release and Business Cycle Indicators

Employment downside surprise, +29K vs +89, with cumulative 81K downward revisions to previous two months. Taking into account early benchmark, it’s not changing the picture too muc...

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globaldatapod.podbean.com /1 month ago

Global Data Pod Weekender: Labor day

Today’s employment report aligned labor demand more closely with the positive cyclical dynamics seen in both US and global activity this quarter. While there remains a concern abou...

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asiatimes.com /1 month ago

Philippines bets on Luzon corridor to fix its jobless growth

The Philippines has a growth problem that GDP statistics miss. Although the economy has expanded rapidly for most of the past decade, many Filipinos still cannot find work— or work...

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wisconsinexaminer.com /1 month ago

Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more t...

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investmentwatchblog.com /2 weeks ago

Labor income has been shrinking as a share of U.S. personal income for decades while investment income and government tr...

This has been declining too big time pic.twitter.com/QYprmOcYja — Sam (@SamMillerWright) October 7, 2026 U.S. workers’ share of the economy falls to a record low https://ww...

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seekingalpha.com /3 weeks ago

Private Sector Jobs Are Still Growing

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econbrowser.com /1 week ago

Business Cycle Indicators: Industrial Production Up, Retail Sales Flattish

and Monthly GDP for August, manufacturing production. First, NBER BCDC indicators: Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (bold...

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marginalrevolution.com /4 days ago

Saving for the machines

From Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: When machines can perform a growing share of tasks, growth depends on two margins: how the task structure affects the returns to accumulating machi...

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recruitingheadlines.com /1 month ago

Indeed and Pulsenomics Release Q3 Labor Market Outlook Survey

U.S. economists expect a short-term improvement in hiring demand, before softening through mid-2027, according to the Q3 Indeed Hiring Lab Labor Market Outlook Survey, which is bas...

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wisconsinexaminer.com /1 month ago

Labor Day report has good news and bad news about Wisconsin workers

Wage gains for lower-paid Wisconsin workers have continued in 2026, but a halt in job creation suggests that might not last, says the author of a new report released ahead of Labor...

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globaldatapod.podbean.com /4 weeks ago

Global Data Pod Weekender: Yes Virginia, there is a tradeoff between growth and inflation

The news continues to point to broad and strong global growth momentum. It is thus no surprise that markets and central banks are increasingly expecting a higher path of rates. Wha...

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econbrowser.com /1 month ago

Manufacturing Employment Recovery Delayed?

Here are several measures of manufacturing employment. ADP suggests continued deterioration, while QCEW (through March) fell as official employment rose. Figure 1: Manufacturing em...

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investmentwatchblog.com /2 days ago

The labor market is cracking while inflation fades.

The labor market is cracking while inflation fades. Monthly job growth has collapsed from 500,000 at the 2022 peak to around 40,000, and economists see it staying there. Meanwhile...

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