The Reserve Bank of Australia are a callous lot, says Richard Farmer. Let’s not worry about those 5.2% of people without a job, or all those working less hours than they would like to.
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Kohler: why unemployment is heading to 6%
There is an unfolding employment disaster going on in Australia, but compared with Greece and Spain, Portugal and Ireland, we’re doing just great.
Political snippets: Go with the trend but that’s still not good
Experience tells me to go with the trend figures rather than the alternative original or seasonally adjusted versions of the employment figures.
Something for everyone in new employment data
The latest unemployment data are a decidedly mixed bag. The real concern is the participation rate.
Unemployment up slightly — all eyes on Victoria
Unemployment increased slightly in November, but the main impact was in Victoria and Queensland.
Political snippets: Solid growth without jobs
Yesterday’s gross domestic product figures show there is no problem in Australia at the moment about economic growth.
MYEFO: Swan cuts to save the thinnest of surpluses
The government has unveiled a range of spending cuts but they won’t stop a big blowout in this year’s budget deficit.
Unemployment figures defy the pessimists again
Today’s employment numbers suggest the economy is sound and ready for whatever Europe throws at it. Economists had been tipping a fall in employment amid softer conditions but yet again the doomsayers were defied.
Political snippets: Things can only get better
The labour force figures out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning at least tell us that things are not getting worse.
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Unemployment and pay rates by uni degrees
A fascinating document that shows how US college graduates compare based on their college major. For example Actuarial Science students have 0% unemployment, which contrasts to Architecture, where 10% of its graduates remain unemployed.
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New York, how do I love thee
There are 14 million people in the United States currently looking for work. But that’s not enough to stop Caroline Regidor moving to the city of dreams to hang out with artists, hipsters and Occupy Wall Street protestors.
Occupy movement is like the internet from which it emerged
Once the #occupy movement was taken seriously, the efforts began to shoehorn it into existing political agendas. It won’t work.
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Why the Occupy Wall Street protesters are so damn angry
It may be a movement with no clear leadership or aims, but a look at these graphs — showing growing unemployment rates in the US compared to the growing level of corporate profits — and it’s no surprise why Americans are protesting.
Political snippets: At least it’s not getting worse.
That’s about the best that can be said of the September labour force figures released today.
Political snippets: Little joy on the housing front
A big increase in sales of new houses in Queensland in August was not enough to bring much joy to the market overall.
Save the gloom for offshore: our economy is performing well
There’s plenty of bad economic news offshore but the Australian economy remains well-placed, whatever commentators might say, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
Unemployment jumps! Except, it was in the boom states …
Unemployment edged up in August, but the rise was in the resource boom states of WA and Queensland where growth has hit a wall.
Political snippets: Understating unemployment?
A survey result by the Bureau published this morning suggests that the participation rate significantly understates the number of Australians who could be enticed into the workforce if jobs were available
travel Redundant in London: the concept of self-employment
“You’ve got to have a different mindset. You are not unemployed, but self-employed,” Amanda Austen’s friend told her after her first ‘Tilting Head Episode’ a couple of years ago. A tilting what? Let Austen explain…
Employment grows, and not just in the mining states
The “patchwork economy” isn’t much in evidence in today’s employment data.
Por fin, the Spanish protest unemployment with a touch of fiesta
It’s been dubbed the “Spanish Revolution”, reminiscent of the workers uprising and social revolution in Spain during the civil war in the 1930s. The sad thing is, most of the thousands filling the streets of Spain in recent days are only wannabe workers.
Welfare: government fails its social democracy obligations
This is not a Labor government budget in any serious sense. It does not take from the rich, except in very minor ways, and its redistributive tendencies are almost reversed.
