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Mike: Good day to all. My goal was to put this post Cash-for-Clunkers is Clunker Legislation by a Clunker of a Congress at the top, but my haste prevented that from happening. Take a look at Cash-for-Clunkers is Clunker Legislation by a Clunker of a Congress and be so kind as to offer your opinion of this […]
Mike: I hope you all have a fine Friday and thanks for visiting The Layoff List. The layoff and unemployment news is in the next post just below this one, but I needed to vent about the latest in legislative stupidity. Today’s economic calendar is light, so I’m going to review the Cash-for-Clunkers legislation that […]
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Mike: Thursday’s Jobless Claims report shows that weekly claims increased, but continuing claims decreased for the first time after increasing for the past 21 weeks. The four-week moving average, which smooths weekly volatility fell to 615,000. The news media is trumpeting the continuing claims decline without mentioning the effect of people losing their unemployment benefits. There […]