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MAY 2, 2025

The headline jobs number in the April employment report was above expectations, however, February and March payrolls were revised down by 58,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.7 Earlier: April Employment Report: 177 thousand Jobs, 4.2%

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JUNE 7, 2024

The headline jobs number in the May employment report was well above expectations, however March and April payrolls were revised down by 15,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.4 million, changed little in May. million from 4.47

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APRIL 25, 2024

The NCHS reports: The provisional number of births for the United States in 2023 was 3,591,328, down 2% from 2022. Births peaked in 2007 and have generally declined since then. From the National Center for Health Statistics: Births: Provisional Data for 2023. The general fertility rate was 54.4 The total fertility rate was 1,616.5

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The headline jobs number in the July employment report was below expectations, and May and June payrolls were revised down by 29,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons rose by 346,000 to 4.6 million in July. million from 4.22 million in June.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

The headline jobs number in the September employment report was well above expectations, and July and August payrolls were revised up by 72,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons changed little at 4.6 million in September. million a year earlier.

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MAY 3, 2024

The headline jobs number in the April employment report was below expectations, and February and March payrolls were revised down by 22,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.5 million, changed little in April. million from 4.31

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APRIL 5, 2024

The headline jobs number in the March employment report was above expectations; and January and February payrolls were revised up by 22,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.3 million, changed little in March. million from 4.36

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

The headline jobs number in the September employment report was well above expectations, and employment for the previous two months was revised up by 119,000, combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.1 million, changed little in September.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The headline jobs number in the August employment report was below expectations, and June and July payrolls were revised down by 82,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons was little changed at 4.8 million in August. This measure is up from 4.2

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2023

Unemployment is low, job openings are still high, and what looks salaries are still rising. ~~~ I have a very vivid recollection of massive firings during the 2007-09 financial crisis. I wanted to drop a quick note about the endless spate of layoff announcements — and why you should (mostly) ignore them.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The headline jobs number in the October employment report was below expectations, and employment for the previous two months was revised down by 101,000, combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.3 million, changed little in October.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The headline jobs number in the November employment report was at expectations, however employment for the previous two months was revised down by 35,000, combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 295,000 to 4.0 million in November.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The headline jobs number in the December employment report was above expectations, however employment for the previous two months was revised down by 71,000, combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.2 million from 3.99 million in November.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 1, 2025

Long Now Foundation ) The hardest-working font in Manhattan : In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love. The ultrarich are growing in numbers, and changing wealth as we know it. ( Everyone else hasnt. That would be absurd, no?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 13, 2023

By my crude estimates, a substantial number of U.S. November 3, 2006) Tracking NAR Spin (April 23rd, 2008) Realtors Get Real (March 2007) Pending Home Sales Index, NAR Housing Market “Bottoms” (January 2008) How Counter-Productive is Realtor Association Spin? real estate agents and brokers will drop out of NAR membership.

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MARCH 26, 2023

This data has limited value in terms of absolute numbers, but is useful in looking at trends. in 2007 and has fallen to under 10% now, and the DSR for mortgages (blue) are near the lowest level for the last 35 years. The Mortgage DSR and the Consumer DSR sum to the DSR. Click on graph for larger image.

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JULY 5, 2024

The headline jobs number in the June employment report was above expectations, however April and May payrolls were revised down by 111,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.2 million, changed little in June. million from 4.42

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 24, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, Apple is sure to gain smartphone share quickly, and its iPhone is so new that it didn’t even register in the spring numbers. – Fortune, August 24, 2007 The post Forget the iPhone: BlackBerry is still the one to beat appeared first on The Big Picture.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The headline jobs number in the January employment report was well above expectations, and November and December payrolls were revised up by 126,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " In January, the number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.4 Including revisions: The 3.06

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When I put together my list of what was to blame for inflation , corporate profit-seeking was number (13 of 15). price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Perhaps this explains in part why corporate profits have held up as well as they have despite higher interest rates and increased wages.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 3, 2023

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. As Batnick points out, all of these horrendous periods of market pain are already factored into long-term returns of equities.

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MARCH 8, 2024

The headline jobs number in the February employment report was above expectations; however, December and January payrolls were revised down by 167,000 combined. Part Time for Economic Reasons From the BLS report : " The number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.4 million, changed little in February. million from 4.42

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MAY 29, 2023

The other two times were in early 2007 (housing bust / financial crisis), and in March 2020 (pandemic). All of these events are possible, but they are unpredictable, and the probabilities are low that they will happen in the next few years or even decades. 2) Significant policy error.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 6, 2025

The supply side was healing on the supply chain, and there was a big surge of labor force participation from a number of groups. So you got a number of positive supply shocks that are exactly what allowed for the immaculate disinflation, which the people who thought that was impossible use that phrase mockingly. I think number one.

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

CR Note: This is from Tanta December 25, 2007 ! This involves creating a large number of worksheets with tediously copied and edited images that, when you ctrl-page down rapidly, create crude animation. From Mortgage Pig™. I suppose this requires some explanation.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Housing demand in California continued to fall as rising interest rates further dampened the state’s housing market in November as home sales registered the lowest annualized pace since October 2007 and the largest year-over-year sales drop in at least the past four decades , the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.

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Fortune Financial

OCTOBER 14, 2024

It has been my experience when reviewing portfolios that diversification is typically expressed simply as a number of various stocks owned, or owning a handful of asset classes, usually stocks of various sizes and geographies, and bonds of varying maturities.

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Trade Brains

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This dates back to 2007, when the RBI was dealing with a strange issue. A large number of hairdressers were using these razor blades. It was because of the illegal smuggling to Bangladesh. Smugglers used to export these coins to Bangladesh. One single coin could be turned into six blades, and each blade could be sold for Rs 2.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Schroders ) • The Exact Age When You Make Your Best Financial Decisions There’s a magic number for when your expertise and cognitive powers align. 2007-09 Great Financial Crisis 7. There’s been explosive growth in the number of cases of the disease since Lymerix was pulled from the market more than two decades ago.

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MarketWatch

JUNE 20, 2023

Shares of home builders were broadly higher Tuesday, with a number of them trading in record territory, after data showing a strong and surprising increase in the construction of new homes. toward the highest close since February 2007. The iShares U.S. Home Construction exchange-traded fund ITB climbed 0.8% s TOL stock rallied 1.5%

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Good Financial Cents

AUGUST 14, 2023

The creator(s) of this first-of-its-kind asset developed the cryptocurrency in response to the Great Recession of 2007-2009 , spurred by a distrust of the traditional banking system and concerns about its stability. Initial Price Number of Bitcoins purchased Final Value 10 years (2013-2023) $13.30 2007 – -16.38 0.0602 $1,765.11

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

MARCH 16, 2023

This caused a fear over the weekend that we might see a repeat of 2007-2009. This explainer will lay out what happened, what the response was and why this is not like 2007-2009. Is this like 2007-2009? What happened at Silicon Valley Bank (and the other banks that failed): An old-fashioned bank run! In our view, no.

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Truemind Capital

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Thinking about all this, I felt I had read about this and observed it in 2007. During times of euphoria and bubbles, a huge number of retail investors want to invest in the stock market. I am also seeing an increasing exposure to equity even in those portfolios where investors have a very low-risk appetite.

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Validea

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This generation’s fortune-teller has been Michael Burry, who called the 2007-2008 housing bubble burst early on. Unlike a lot of pundits, Burry risked his own money on his 2007 housing call and other stock picks that delivered high rewards. His firm Scion bought puts on two popular index funds, betting on a looming downturn.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

When I first was using a managed futures fund for clients, so talking 2007 or so, I stumbled into the idea that part of the past success came from interest earned on T-bills. Managed futures goes long and short some number of futures contracts that are collateralized by cash and cash equivalents like very short term T-bills.

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Validea

JULY 20, 2022

Looking at the number of trading days within a trailing month of both these indexes falling into their respective bottoms, it stands at 23.8%—far far below the level of previous market bottoms such as 2007-09 when it hit 81%. And currently, those benchmarks are several percentage points higher than those numbers.

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Carson Wealth

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But make no mistake: These are robust numbers, and the big picture is that 3.8 The highest it got to during the 2003–2007 expansion was 80.3%. Payroll growth has certainly slowed over the last few months, from 537,000 in July to 315,000 in August and then 263,000 in September. Initial unemployment benefit claims are near record lows.

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