With the nation’s singular focus on the economy as the November election rapidly approaches, all eyes will be on Friday’s jobs report for June. If the pundits on Slate’s Political Gabfest are correct (and at least John and Emily almost always are), most undecided and/or independent voters will be making up their minds in July [...]
I don’t expect to get any credit for issuing an accurate forecast after the fact, but we predict that today’s job report, issued roughly 9 hours ago at 8:30 EST this morning, was worse than expected. As is the case a few times each year, the BLS report came out the morning after the last [...]