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USA TODAYStocks drop as Europe overshadows US economic newsUSA TODAYBy Pallavi Gogoi, AP NEW YORK – Stocks slipped Thursday as unease over Europe overshadowed an encouraging report on unemployment claims and good results from big retailers, including…
I have posted a new permanent page of charts of first time unemployment claims and Federal withholding taxes. The data shows current actual, not seasonally…
The mainstream media today reported an increase in initial jobless claims this week to 380,000, an increase of 13,000. This was another huge miss for…
The Treasury market panic saw a bit of a reversal this week, partly due to an unexpected, large increase in supply because of a sharp…
The mainstream media proclaimed an unexpected “beat” of the first time unemployment claims number today. The fake, seasonally fudged number dropped to 358,000 in the…
SP futures (or ES electronic mini S&P) traded flat through most of the night, then went into rally mode at 7 AM NY time, topping…
Having repeated essentially the same analysis and forecast for seemingly the past 10 days, I won’t bore subscribers with more of the same tonight, especially…
December 28, 2011, 6:00 am
The Biggest Cut in Unemployment Benefits
By CASEY B. MULLIGAN
Casey B. Mulligan is an economics professor at the University of Chicago.
While Congress has been debating whether to cut the duration of unemployment benefit…
