Unbelievable-The booming economy is not magically materializing under Socialists rule

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April jobs report: Payrolls rose by 266,000, sharply missing estimates, as unemployment rate increased to 6.1%
The U.S. economy brought back far fewer jobs than estimated in April, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly increased.

The Labor Department released the April jobs report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus data compiled by Bloomberg:

  • Non-farm payrolls, April: +266,000 vs. +1.000 million expected and a revised +770,000 in March

  • Unemployment rate, April: 6.1% vs. 5.8% expected and 6.0% in March

  • Average hourly earnings, month-over-month, April: 0.7% vs. 0.0% expected and -0.1% in March

  • Average hourly earnings, year-over-year, April: 0.3% vs. -0.4% expected and 4.2% in March
Non-farm payrolls rose for a fourth straight month but at a sharply slower-than-expected clip, even as easing social distancing standards across the country helping support the recovery.

Heading into the report, economists expected a blowout payrolls number: Nomura chief economist Lewis Alexander said market participants should brace for a "monster U.S. payroll number" of more than 1 million driven in large part by advances in some of the industries hardest-hit by the pandemic. Leisure and hospitality payrolls were still down by 3.3 million compared to February 2020 levels as of March, but have been making some of the largest gains over the past several months to try and lessen this deficit.

And recently, companies and business surveys have suggested that the main economic concern now is around making sure businesses have enough workers to keep up with rising demand.

"We know per recent qualitative data that companies are starved for employees at the moment. We can see that in both ISM reports (manufacturing and services) as well as in the Fed’s Beige Book," economists at RBC Capital Markets wrote in a note last week. "Moreover, we know that continuing claims (not-seasonally adjusted) made a sizable improvement when measured between the payroll survey weeks, and that underpins our forecast."

Still, many Americans remain on the sidelines of the labor market, and will likely continue to do so until concerns around the pandemic recede further. But with more than 40% of the population already injected with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, additional progress is unlikely to come quite as quickly, and many epidemiologists are now predicting the U.S. will never entirely reach "herd immunity." The labor market's ability to rebound further as businesses focus on risk mitigation rather than total elimination will be a key focus going forward.

"A big segment of the workers are still concerned about the pandemic. We estimate roughly 1.6 million workers want a job but didn't look for a job recently because they were still concerned about contracting the virus, or other factors around the pandemic," Joe Song, Bank of America U.S. economist, told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. "On top of that, you had some workers citing that childcare was still a big factor for their decision not to participate in the labor market."

Heading into Friday's report, the economy was still 8.4 million payrolls short of levels from February 2020. And the labor force participation rate, at 61.5% in March, was 1.8 percentage points below levels from before the outbreak last year.
 

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And yet the market is up 200 points. It begs the question of who's driving this train? :confused:

I dont think it is that simple. Is the market up 200 points or is the amount of USD to buy that value down 200 points? As the Fed prints money, it could look like the market is up when really it is just our dollar losing buying power.
 

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I dont think it is that simple. Is the market up 200 points or is the amount of USD to buy that value down 200 points? As the Fed prints money, it could look like the market is up when really it is just our dollar losing buying power.

To be honest, at this point I'm not sure it matters. We're printing money like it's free and the national debt is rising exponentially. No one will even discuss paying it back, ever. So they default to the slightly less absurd fantasy that they can even balance the budget, which hasn't happened in 20 years and has only happened 5 time in the last 50 years! Projections don't show any silver linings either, with trillion plus deficits expected for the rest of this decade.

I've come to the conclusion that we're never going to pay what we owe, and the damned fools making this decision honestly believe America is "too big to fail". :(
 

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To be honest, at this point I'm not sure it matters. We're printing money like it's free and the national debt is rising exponentially. No one will even discuss paying it back, ever. So they default to the slightly less absurd fantasy that they can even balance the budget, which hasn't happened in 20 years and has only happened 5 time in the last 50 years! Projections don't show any silver linings either, with trillion plus deficits expected for the rest of this decade.

I've come to the conclusion that we're never going to pay what we owe, and the damned fools making this decision honestly believe America is "too big to fail". :(

Maybe the big finance and automotive companies will return the favor when needed? HAHAHA, that would be the day.
 

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I dont think it is that simple. Is the market up 200 points or is the amount of USD to buy that value down 200 points? As the Fed prints money, it could look like the market is up when really it is just our dollar losing buying power.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Good old-fashioned inflation
 

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Right off the bat Biden closed down the oil fields and put many out of work. Saw them on TV just bought a new vehicle and they knew they would lose it..and homes foreclosed on. It didn't bode well for those that Biden affected and won't for some time to come.
 

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National debt is $28 TRILLION.

National spending is at $7 TRILLION for this year.

Annual DEFICIT is at $3.5 TRILLION actual.


So for anyone interested in calculating, we (meaning the Federal .gov) are spending nearly DOUBLE what we bring in.

With no end in sight.

With no call for reform.

With no accountability.

With no plan for the future...

As if our identity politics and race-baiting warmongers weren't enough...



This place is f***ing doomed.
 

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