Investment & Finance Thread (week June 29 - July 3 edition)

Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | June 29, 2014 | Freeper Investors

[Chgogal]

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Happy July 4th!!!!!

[Chgogal]

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

Damm those Reagan Recovery years were not bad!!! In one month the economy added 1.115 MILLLION jobs in this country with a population of about 233 million. Now people here brag about a jobs added number of 233k with a population of about 315+K.

[Chgogal]

Google search
historical us jobs added by month

[Wyatt's Torch]

Tapering started months ago... But there is no sense of urgency because wage inflation is tame.

[Chgogal]

Yup, wage inflation is tame because 1) we have the lowest labor penetration since 1978 and 2) part time jobs are out stripping full time jobs. It's tough out there for the average American.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Personally, my meager time'n'energy for research is largely spent using IBD (that and American Association of Individual Investors). Both can be given a 'test-drive' for free.

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Neither of those are monetary factors. If wage inflation was related to participation rate it would have been an issue since participation peaked in 1999.

[expat_panama]

If wage inflation was related to participation rate it would have been an issue since participation peaked in 1999.

In fact, participation rate was almost as low as it is now back in '80 when inflation was peaking--

 --but the two are related in the way that the participation rate was kept low in order to fight inflation.  Our happy two-decade  plateau ended catastrophically in '09 and has yet to recover even with the latest labor report. 

On that subject we were looking at the apparent contradiction between the -2.7% GDP and the falling unemployment rate.  My thinking is that the unimproved participation rate puts paid to the jobs rate and we may not want to count on a recovering GDP for a while yet.