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One Overlooked Reason Why the Middle Class Is in Decline

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / JUNE 11, 2014 The middle class happily accepts high risk in return for temporary gains in the asset bubble of the day, guaranteeing a steady...

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Wages vs. Real Wages Over Time: How the Fed Helped Destroy the Middle Class...

globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:02 AM Wages have seemingly been on a tear since 1965 having risen from $2.5 per hour in February of 1964 to $20.5...

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“Real” and “Unreal” Wages; Five Decades of Middle Class Decline in Pictures

globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Friday, June 20, 2014 2:11 PM What follows is a guest post from Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives. This post has its roots in a discussion...

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Fed Policies Are Dangerous Claptrap … Here’s Why …

acting-man.com / Bill Bonner / June 23, 2014 Whatever Happened to Wages? When we left off on Friday, we promised to take up an important theme on the morrow. The morrow is here. True to our word, we...

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Japanese Economic Collapse Dislodges USDJPY Tractor Beam, Pushes Futures Lower

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 06/27/2014 07:10 -0400 Abe’s honeymoon is over. Following nearly two years of having free reign to crush the Japanese economy with his idiotic monetary and fiscal...

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Same problems, different date? Home prices vs wages

investmentwatchblog.com / July 10, 2014 READ MORE

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The Red Queen’s Race in pay raises: Record number of employed US workers...

mybudget360.com /  mybudget360 / July 11, 2014 A record number of Americans currently working are reporting no wage increases over the last year. What is important to note in this recent report from...

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Rising Wages Where? Real Wages Post First Annual Decline Since 2012

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 07/22/2014 10:31 For all the talk about “noisy inflation” this and “rising prices are good for the economy” that, what the Fed’s cheerleading squad continues to...

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Labor Unions Are Anti-Labor

mises.org / by George Reisman / Monday, July 28, 2014 Many Americans, perhaps a substantial majority, still believe that, irrespective of any problems they may have caused, labor unions are...

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“Three Lost Decades” – How the American Middle Class is 20% Poorer Now vs. 1984

libertyblitzkrieg.com / BY Michael Krieger / Jul 30, 2014 at 11:23 am Like so many other things in popular American culture, this quaint notion of a “middle class” in the U.S. is at this point nothing...

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The New Sub-Prime …

acting-man.com / Author Bill Bonner / July 31, 2014 Life Below Deck Dow down 70 points. Gold back under $1,300 an ounce. Nothing much to talk about there… Meanwhile, we see pain and suffering. At the...

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Risk Off As Employment Costs Surge: This Is Where Wages Supposedly Rose The Most

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 07/31/2014 09:05 While earlier today initial claims disappointed modestly to the upside, the economic print the market has been fascinated by is the otherwise C-grade...

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Great Graphic: Wages and Productivity

marctomarket.com / by Marc Chandler / August 4, 2014 We live in a brave new world.  Never before have the major central banks so strongly advocated higher wages.    The Yellen Federal Reserve has...

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Here’s Why Wages Might Rise Despite Millions of Unemployed Being Available...

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 Tragically, the inability of our institutions to impart the skills required by the emerging economy hobble not just the...

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How to Obscure one of the Biggest Economic Problems in the US

wolfstreet.com / by Doug Short / August 24, 2014 By Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives: Earlier this week I updated my commentary on Five Decades of Middle Class Wages, an analysis of Real Average Hourly...

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The wages-fuel-demand fallacy

goldmoney.com / By Alasdair Macleod / 29 August 2014 In recent months talking heads, disappointed with the lack of economic recovery, have turned their attention to wages. If only wages could grow,...

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Franklin Roosevelt: On Labor, Wages, and Confidence

jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com / 01 SEPTEMBER 2014 “After many requests on my part the Congress passed a Fair Labor Standards Act, what we call the Wages and Hours Bill. That Act –applying to...

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The Difference Between Nominal And Real, In One Chart Courtesy Of Japan

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 09/30/2014 03:29 -0400 For about three years, or just before the terminal Keynesian/monetarist experiment of Abenomics was launched, Japanese wages were flatlining,...

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Where The Rising Wages Are?

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 10/03/2014 08:18 -0400 With the September jobs report, perhaps one of the most irrelevant monthly updates from the BLS in a long time, due out in less than half an...

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No, Wall Street Is Not Paid for ‘Aggravation’… But for Intermediation!

thedailybell.com / By Staff News & Analysis / October 03, 2014 Wall Street Pays Its Workers to Suffer … Why do people on Wall Street get paid so much? It could be because Wall Streeters have...

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Post-Foreclosure Hell: Garnished Wages, Seized Assets, Deficiency Judgments

globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 1:18 AM In 2009 and 2010 “Walking Away” was the rage. (skip the adds and scroll down to my list of articles)....

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Real Hourly Wages Drop In September, Fail To Rise In 6 Of Past 7 Months

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 10/22/2014 09:15 -0400 One of the greatest misconceptions plaguing modern economics is that just because there is broad inflation (real, not hedonic,...

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Globalization = Permanent Instability

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Globalization continually creates imbalances that fuel a perpetual instability that gradually impoverishes every sector...

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About That Year-Long “Critical” Saline Shortage

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2014 21:01 In addition to its previously discussed farcical seasonal adjustment that made a slumping unadjusted Employment index appear as if it was the...

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The Mystery Of America’s “Schrodinger” Middle Class, Which Is Either Thriving...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 11/24/2014 09:05 -0500 On one hand, the US middle class has rarely if ever had it worse. At least, if one actually dares to venture into this thing called the real...

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Prosperity Amidst the Ruins

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014 The fundamental problem facing the global economy is not slow economic growth but political inequality. It’s striking:...

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Krugman: “Sticky Wages I Win, Flexible Wages You Lose”

mises.ca / by Robert P. Murphy / November 30th, 2014 The fun thing about Paul Krugman is that you often can use his own charts against him. For a recent example, consider the issue of “sticky wages.”...

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Why the US Is (Temporarily) Outperforming, In Two Charts

dollarcollapse.com / by John Rubino / December 5, 2014 Today’s US employment report was the best in years. 300,000+ new jobs, rising wages, fewer people dropping out of the workforce, the whole...

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Promises, Over-Reach, And Mistaken Remedies

zerohedge.com / by Guy Haselmann / 12/06/2014 18:15 -0500 Fed: Factors continue to line up for the Fed to raise rates at the March meeting. If the Fed were truly data dependent, a March hike would...

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Food for Thought in the Week Ahead

marctomarket.com /  by Marc Chandler / December 7, 2014 Developments in the week ahead will be understood within the context of last week’s developments. The most important of these are the strength...

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Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation

charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / MONDAY, DECEMBER 08, 2014 Financial and risk bubbles don’t pop in a vacuum–all the phantom collateral constructed with mal-invested free money for...

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Game Over Japan: Real Wages Crash Most In 21st Century, Savings Rate Turns...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 12/26/2014 09:31 When about a month ago it was revealed that Japan’s shadow economic advisor is none other than Paul Krugman, we said it was only a matter of time...

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The Japanese Economic Dilemma in a Nutshell

jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com / BY JESSE / 30 DECEMBER 2014 Here is a note from a friend in Japan: In today’s Nikkei (Japanese version), on page 5, tucked behind all the hype about the government’s...

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Which state has half of its eligible adults not working? The dismal...

mybudget360.com / by mybudget360 / January 15, 2015 People have a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that 93 million Americans are not in the labor.  In December alone we added over 451,000...

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$43 Hot Dogs; $47 Burgers And $55 Caesar Salads: A Look At The Davos Menu

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 01/23/2015 08:28 -0500 Billionaires may live in a world untroubled by such petty concerns as rising costs of living and declining real wages, but like everyone else...

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10% Of US Refining Capacity Offline After US Oil Workers Stage Largest...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 02/02/2015 07:15 -0500 It’s not exactly the same as if Wall Street were to unionize and demand higher wages, but when US energy workers – supposedly the best paid...

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BLS Unleashes Whopping Revisions To 2014 Jobs Data, Now Reports 423K Job...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 02/06/2015 09:06 -0500 As reported first thing this morning, in addition to the jobs and wages numbers, perhaps just as importantly, the BLS would revise its entire...

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Flash! Walmart Can Hire All the People It Wants at Low Wages!

teapartyeconomist.com / by Gary North / February 20, 2015 Stop the presses! (You remember presses, don’t you?) “Walmart is paying people $9 an hour.” The Leftist press is outraged. “It’s a public...

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Great Graphic: Minimum Wages in the EU

marctomarket.com / by Marc Chandler / February 26, 2015 This Great Graphic comes from Eurostat.  It shows the minimum wage as of the start of the year for the 28 members of  the EU.   It ranges from...

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The One Number The Market Is Focused On: Real Hourly Wages Surge Most Since...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 02/26/2015 09:09 In today’s deluge of macro data, one number stood out: the parallel release by the BLS of the real average hourly earnings, which is simply taking...

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German Wages: Creeping Optimisim

marctomarket.com / by Marc Chandler / March 2, 2015 The differences between eurozone members tends to be a key focus for investors and policy makers.  There is another fissure that typically is...

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The 35 year drought in real wages for American workers: American workers...

mybudget360.com / by mybudget360 / March 3, 2015 Economic recoveries take on a variety of shape and sizes.  With stock markets reaching new highs you would expect that some of the fruits of this boom...

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Poor Wages = Poor Economy; Fed’s Evans Expects It to Get Worse

schiffgold.com / BY MIKE FINGER / MARCH 5, 2015  Mainstream analysts continue to tout an economic recovery based upon new jobs, but are now starting to worry about stagnant wage growth. One popular...

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5/3/15: Russian Economy: External Trade, Inflation and Wages

trueeconomics.blogspot.com / by Constantin Gurdgiev / March 5, 2015 Quick digest of top news relating to Russian economy: Customs receipts for Russian Federation in February 2015 reached RUB393.7...

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What Wall Street, And Twitter, Expect From Today’s Payrolls Number

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 03/06/2015 07:50 -0500 The one thing to note about today’s “decisive” jobs number, is that most are scrambling to warn that they really have no idea what it will be...

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February Payrolls Surge To 295K, Smash Expectations Of 235K, Unemployment...

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 03/06/2015 08:35 -0500 Well, a June rate hike it is, because despite all the talking down of the February NFP number which was supposed to be whacked due to snow, it...

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Falling Interest Causes Falling Wages

acting-man.com / Keith Weiner / March 19, 2015 Putting the Hurt on Labor Interest rates have been falling for over three decades. Conventional economics has two things to say about this. One, inflation...

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Mohamed El-Erian Explains Why He Is Now “Mostly In Cash”

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 04/07/2015 09:29 -0400 “I am mostly concentrated in cash… because I think most asset prices have been pushed by central banks to very elevated levels. Central banks...

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Economists in Glass Houses

mauldineconomics.com / BY JOHN MAULDIN / APRIL 7, 2015 For many economists, the chicken and egg question is, which came first, consumption or production? What drives growth? Let’s continue with our...

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The death of the new home market: First time buyers, reaching the edge of...

doctorhousingbubble.com / Dr. Housing Bubble / April 7th, 2015 Given every headline we have seen over the last few years you would think that home builders would be out in droves adding new supply to...

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