Archive for February 9th, 2015

Behind the surge in jobs …

February 9, 2015

A lot of chatter over the weekend about how President Obama’s economic policies are – after 6 years — humming.

More than 250,000 more people were employed … but interestingly, the unemployment rate inched up as the labor force participation rate increased a bit.

What’s going on?

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A couple of economists at the NBER – the think tank that officially declares when recessions begin and end – just issued a study with an evidenced-based hypothesis …

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