Mike: Jobless Claims will be the news of the day. * The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment insurance rose to a seasonally adjusted 652,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 644,000. That is slightly above analysts’ expectations. The total number of people claiming benefits are up 122,000 to 5.56 million, […]
Mike: Hello to all and thanks for visiting. – Mike: Below is another one of those school board decisions that make me shake my head. The school board must be completely clueless to the impression that a move like this makes on its constituents, they are in the hip pocket of the superintendent, or they […]
Mike: Good day to all. Today proved to be a milder day for layoff announcements. The report of Schlumberger’s 6000 layoffs was the big news of the day, but we’ll wait for confirmation from additional sources to get the exact number. Unemployment is still going to bean issue moving toward any kind of recovery, but […]
