US Jobs: Coming or Going?

[usaone]

Down slightly but expansion continues.......housing starts up Huge. 10.5% over last year.

There are almost 3.5 million jobs available right now in the US.

[usaone]

Clubv did you buy Silver when it "dropped to $37"?

[clubv]

USA I guess you didn't catch my sarcasm. Housing starts "multifamily" the American dream! What kinds of jobs at what pay? Give me a breakdown add a little insight. I made my money on silver last year.

[usaone]

I guess we missed were you said Silver was going to drop over 50%. 

Historically, almost 40% of Americans live in "Multifamily Homes".  Nothing wrong with that. And the unemployed construction workers who are starting to be hired to build them won't mind to much either.  

[sunrnr]

US Jobs: Coming or Going?

The answer is YES, they are! All the time, everyday, all year long in every city, state, country and nation. As long as there are people and needs, there will be jobs coming and going. It's called life.

[frankq]

I guess we missed were you said Silver was going to drop over 50%.

LOL.......Yeah, he probably bought into the same REIT that Damnitagain Clampitt supposedly owns.....

[damnotagain]

They are going ! Major layoffs coming to the trucking industry! SCI

Bloomington, IN (April 23 2013) FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) for February fell over two points following a similar decline in January. The current reading of -9.5 reflects an expectation for increasingly difficult conditions for shippers as 2013 progresses. The SCI is forecast to be choppy over the next few months with further deterioration occurring in the second half of the year. The introduction of the new Hours of Service rule in July will be the next step in what is expected to be the largest wave of trucking safety regulations in history. A cumulative effect of these regulations will be a reduction in driver productivity, resulting in a substantial tightening of already tight truck capacity. FTR continues to predict rate acceleration which will increase shipping costs as the effects of H.O.S. play out. The Shippers Conditions Index is a compilation of factors affecting shippers transport environment. Any reading below zero indicates a less-than-ideal environment for shippers. Readings below -10 signal that conditions for shippers are approaching critical levels, based on available capacity and expected rates. Details of the factors affecting the February Shippers Conditions Index are found in the April issue of FTR’s Shippers Update published April 10.

www.ftrassociates.com/public/home/document.php?dA=News317

warn notices issued !


 Keep the insults coming !  

[Steady As She Goes]

Apr 24, 2013 11:16:47 GMT -5 sunrnr said:

US Jobs: Coming or Going?

The answer is YES, they are! All the time, everyday, all year long in every city, state, country and nation. As long as there are people and needs, there will be jobs coming and going. It's called life.

TRUE .... TRUE ... TRUE

But one can take just about any article or story about employment/unemployment ... hack it up ... read between the lines ... extract only those bits and pieces that support a specific view ... and then present them as FACT in order to sustain an argument ... completely ignoring the reality that jobs come and go ... ALL THE TIME!!

[damnotagain]

Apr 24, 2013 11:42:56 GMT -5 frankq said:

I guess we missed were you said Silver was going to drop over 50%.

LOL.......Yeah, he probably bought into the same REIT that Damnitagain Clampitt supposedly owns.....

Envy !   Boy

[clubv]

 Actually bought AGQ in July of last year at 36 and sold in Oct at 58  next

[usaone]

I could cherry pick what I did last year too. If its not in real time, who knows if your being truthful. Everything you have posted in real time says you got killed.

[frankq]

Still waiting for some specifics on that REIT............Second request...............

I'm thinking it's the same deal as when Our Friend said he was getting 4.5% on his savings account a couple of years ago........still waiting for the name of that bank.......

[Steady As She Goes]

I hope you weren't referring to me, frankq. I had a 5 year CD earning 4.55% a couple years ago at Navy Federal Credit Union. When I rolled it over in 2012, sad to say it no longer was receiving anythin near that kind of percentage. But as soon as that inflation thingy hits that some have been talking about for the last few years.............

[damnotagain]

Still waiting and wondering what isotope we were talking about? Third request

 I guess we can both wait. 

[frankq]

I didn't think we were talking about an isotope. The only observations I made were the obvious ones given the nuclear history of the 20th century. I never said I was a nuclear scientist. That aside, I won't wait, because there is nothing to wait for. There never is. No meat on the bone as they say.

The only isotope I'd be interested in as far as recent increases is in Bullshitium, because it sure seems like there is more of it around lately. Tough to know for sure because I've heard that Geiger counters don't pick it up. I guess that's what makes it dangerous. I don't really know how much actually came from Fukushima, but there seems to be plenty of it around here. Rumor has it that it escaped some chemists lab during some experiment. But you never know what to believe.....

[frankq]

Apr 24, 2013 19:01:55 GMT -5 Steady As She Goes said:

I hope you weren't referring to me, frankq. I had a 5 year CD earning 4.55% a couple years ago at Navy Federal Credit Union. When I rolled it over in 2012, sad to say it no longer was receiving anythin near that kind of percentage. But as soon as that inflation thingy hits that some have been talking about for the last few years.............

Absolutely not. "Our friend" claimed 4.5% in his passbook account a couple of years ago.....

[damnotagain]

I answered that question on the other thread!

[frankq]

Hey damn, just in case you think bullshitium doesn't exist.....

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshitium

1. bullshitium  


The concept of bullshit as an addition to the Periodic Table of Elements

Your argument is pure weapons-grade bullshitium

[frankq]

Bye..Bye...tiger........LOL....

[damnotagain]

I know frank when you can't argue the point insult the poster! Had your ass handed to you. 

[damnotagain]

 Jobs are going!                          

                                                      The Jobless Trap!

"Now, some unemployment is inevitable in an ever-changing economy. Modern America tends to have an unemployment rate of 5 percent or more even in good times. In these good times, however, spells of unemployment are typically brief. Back in 2007 there were about seven million unemployed Americans — but only a small fraction of this total, around 1.2 million, had been out of work more than six months.

Then financial crisis struck, leading to a terrifying economic plunge followed by a weak recovery. Five years after the crisis, unemployment remains elevated, with almost 12 million Americans out of work. But what’s really striking is the huge number of long-term unemployed, with 4.6 million unemployed more than six months and more than three million who have been jobless for a year or more. Oh, and these numbers don’t count those who have given up looking for work because there are no jobs to be found."
  
...... We are creating a permanent class of unemployed American. 


www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/opinion/krugman-the-jobless-trap.html?_r=0



A drop in durable goods order of 5.7%

add that into the SCI index and you are going to see higher unemployment. 

[frankq]

I know frank when you can't argue the point insult the poster! Had your ass handed to you.

Yeah.......Sure I did......yeah... you got me good.....whatever you say....

Here. Let me share some "facts" from one of your favorite sources. Ready...? Ok..

Once upon a time......................

What was the name of that REIT Yeah....I thought so....

[frankq]

Apr 24, 2013 12:15:04 GMT -5 damnotagain said:

They are going ! Major layoffs coming to the trucking industry! SCI

Bloomington, IN (April 23 2013) FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) for February fell over two points following a similar decline in January. The current reading of -9.5 reflects an expectation for increasingly difficult conditions for shippers as 2013 progresses. The SCI is forecast to be choppy over the next few months with further deterioration occurring in the second half of the year. The introduction of the new Hours of Service rule in July will be the next step in what is expected to be the largest wave of trucking safety regulations in history. A cumulative effect of these regulations will be a reduction in driver productivity, resulting in a substantial tightening of already tight truck capacity. FTR continues to predict rate acceleration which will increase shipping costs as the effects of H.O.S. play out. The Shippers Conditions Index is a compilation of factors affecting shippers transport environment. Any reading below zero indicates a less-than-ideal environment for shippers. Readings below -10 signal that conditions for shippers are approaching critical levels, based on available capacity and expected rates. Details of the factors affecting the February Shippers Conditions Index are found in the April issue of FTR’s Shippers Update published April 10.

www.ftrassociates.com/public/home/document.php?dA=News317

warn notices issued !


 Keep the insults coming !  

Please show us in your sourced material where it says that major layoffs are coming. Please show us in your sourced material where it even mentions layoffs of any kind. Thanks. In any event, the cost of shipping Bullshitium is definitely going up, what with the new safety regulations going into effect........Which means less hours on the road for truckers......which could mean......more trucks on the road to facilitate transport....You really read this stuff?  See the article below?  Yeah, the one on the same page you sourced and to the left. Yeah....from the same source......that's it....WARN notices? Where?  And to continue, your source offers the following:

FTR Trucking Conditions Index For February Continues Upward Trend


Bloomington, IN (April 10, 2013) FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index (TCI) for February as reported in the April 2013 Trucking Update reflected an increasingly improving outlook for trucking with another month-over-month increase of 2+ points to a reading of 12.9. The upward movement of the index is a strong sign of positive momentum in the truck industry. The TCI is designed to summarize a full collection of industry metrics, with a reading above zero indicating a positive environment for truckers.

Uh...The shippers' Index is different from the Trucking Conditions Index there Mr Fermi. Yeah, SHIPPERS are going to experience higher costs as will those who ship. So.....are those WARN notices you are seeing in your head warning truckers that ....things are looking up for them? Looks like truckers will do just fine.

Yeah........you are really handing me my ass........
Isn't it about time to change your user name again?...

[damnotagain]

Apr 24, 2013 20:26:32 GMT -5 frankq said:

Hey damn, just in case you think bullshitium doesn't exist.....

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshitium

1. bullshitium  


The concept of bullshit as an addition to the Periodic Table of Elements

Your argument is pure weapons-grade bullshitium

 Frank we have discussed the displacement of the people of Japan. Radiation and its coming effects . The plight of the unemployed. Ignored the post about how the new chained cpi  will effect the old and disabled. ... The inability of the fed to produce the jobs required to get our economy running.  "Market up".  not once focusing on the  "human element."

I wonder if anyone else has noticed , not just yourself but as wxyz would put it " who gives a shit" about what is happening to other people as long as your making money.

Yet you zero in on profits and what play I made. Insisting I am full of bullshitium. Hoping to
feed off the information 
Guess we will see what that shit taste like. 

Now you say you know who I am ? Then you should not have any problem finding the post I made to one of your buds on the REIT some 2 years ago? 

[damnotagain]

I forgot ! Toot ! Toot! 

[Virgil Showlion]

Glad to see the discussion is remaining... civil.

The data coming out is all over the place. Huge Q1 GDP miss (and will be revised downward), but not horrendous. Spain melting down. Gold and silver retracing with huge jumps after record falls. US food stamp usage hitting (another) new record. But the US is still adding jobs.

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[frankq]

Glad to see the discussion is remaining... civil.

Of course.........You expected anything else? ....

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Apr 26, 2013 10:41:02 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Glad to see the discussion is remaining... civil.

The data coming out is all over the place. Huge Q1 GDP miss (and will be revised downward), but not horrendous. Spain melting down. Gold and silver retracing with huge jumps after record falls. US food stamp usage hitting (another) new record. But the US is still adding jobs.

 It's coming in exactly how I expected that it would and I have outlined this since the start of 2013 here; No Matter What the Markets will be Up.  Also you want to know why food stamps are at an all time high? It's called BS politics....

One of five U.S. households on food stamps - during 'improved' economy

Many states have pushed to get more people to apply for SNAP, a program where the federal government picks up the tab.

In recent years, the law has enabled states to ease asset and income tests for would-be participants. This has been encouraged by the Obama administration, allowing people into the program people with relatively higher incomes as well as savings.

Designed to encourage people to take advantage of the program before they became destitute, the new rules concerning food stamps expanded the pool of potential applicants. This is how SNAP has evolved from a program that rose and fell with the unemployment rate to a more permanent feature of the landscape.

The forecast is slow and steady regardless of how much internet doom and gloom is out there.  In fact these guys have been doing nothing but making money off of internet doom and gloom.... 

Google "Debt" Trends Strategy Yields 326% Investment Return

The Google Trends Strategy tracks weekly changes in the use of 98 search terms related to finance — like revenue, debt, and earnings. According to an April 25 article in Nature, that’s because before stocks fall, investors worry. And that worry is reflected in a rise in searches for more information about the market

[Virgil Showlion]

No Matter What the Markets will be Up.

I agree. How can they not be with a significant percentage of 90 billion/mo. of Fed money flowing in.

ZH has been saying since 2008: Dow 36,000. And I believe them.