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Title: Rasmussen Employment Index Moves to Two-Year High
Source:
Rasmussen
URL Source: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub ... dex/rasmussen_employment_index
Published: Oct 6, 2010
Author: Rasmussen
Post Date: 2010-10-06 09:19:17 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 2676
Comments: 10
The Rasmussen Employment Index jumped six points in September to reach a two-year high of 75.3. The index is up nine points from January and is up 10 points from it's a level a year ago. The index, which measures confidence of workers in the employment market, is at its highest level since September 2008. Now, 20% of workers report their firms are hiring, up one point from last month. Twenty-three percent (23%) of working Americans say their firms are laying workers off, down two points from August. The latest results represent the smallest gap between hiring and lay offs found in two years. But September is the 24th straight month during which the number of workers that reports their firms are laying off is higher than the number who say their firms were hiring. Among private sector managers, just 21% say their firms are hiring, while 25% say their firms are laying people off, showing a slight improvement from August. Typically, an increase in the Employment Index suggests that the government's official report on job creation will be stronger than the month before. Twenty-nine percent (29%) of workers are worried about losing their jobs, up a point from last month. A year ago, roughly the same number (30%) were worried about losing their jobs.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
Among other things, this chart illustrates the more subtle and pernicious nature of the current decline in consumption. The 2010 decline had already exceeded the length of the complete 2008 contraction cycle — the combined contraction and recovery. Now it has exceeded the depth of the contraction as well. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-growth-index-shows-the-2010-contraction-was-worse-than-the-great-recession-2010-10#ixzz11ZuWHT2L
www.businessinsider.com/c...ion-2010-10#ixzz11ZuWHT2L Thanks for the link. I perused the charts and they are a little spooky to say the least.
What I'm looking at is the silence of the media now. It's deafening. Something's about to give way. ;}
CNBC analyst's quote this AM: "The people who actually TRADE gold are more frightening the reason they BUY gold."
Give me this again. This could be taken several ways. 'are more frightening the reason'. ;}
I ***think*** you got it the first time...
#10. To: war (#9)
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#3. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
a little spooky to say the least.
#7. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
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#8. To: war (#7)
"The people who actually TRADE gold are more frightening the reason they BUY gold."
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
Give me this again. This could be taken several ways.
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