Were the books cooked to help President Obama’s re-election campaign?

Joining me this week on PowerTalk to talk about the Moto X and Motorola’s re-shoring of jobs is Mark Randall, Motorola Mobility’s senior vice president of Supply Chain and Operations. We all now recognize the July 2013 Employment Report not | Read More »

Dark clouds and silver linings, as a shriveled workforce holds steady.

The December unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are out, and there’s not much to say.  Obamanomics has achieved employment stagnation.  Nothing really changed much from November.  The official U-3 rate remained stuck at 7.8 percent.  (Actually, it | Read More »

It’s funny how the unemployment data just went haywire as soon as Barack Obama was safely re-elected, isn’t it?

As bad as the October jobs report was – showing an uptick to 7.9 percent in the official unemployment rate, continuing stagnation in workforce participation, increasingly long average unemployment periods, a shift to less career-oriented service sector jobs, and declining | Read More »

Analysis: Remember how the Bureau of Labor Statistics put out a bizarrely low jobless claims report last week?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment numbers for September on Friday.  Sure to dominate the headlines is the modest reduction in the commonly-cited U-3 unemployment rate, which dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent.  That’s the best number of | Read More »