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As the window is closing on a trade deal with China, frustration from farmers is growing faster than the crops they are unable to sell. In the past year bankruptcies among farmers have increased nearly 15 percent, and loan delinquency …

There is a clear evolution happening around the technologies used in banks and financial companies today, which you can see both in the financial products they offer, but also the type of talent in which they invest.  Our analytics team …

Citrix has had a tough year. Underperforming the past two quarters, Citrix shares have fallen 1.5% since January, while the S&P 500 as a whole has gained 19.9%. But what does the second half of 2019 hold for the tech company? Citrix …

We’ll publish more data shortly, but given that we wait for the 1st of the month to populate our model with the prior month’s jobs data (combined with the fact that I’ve been traveling all day), we wanted to get …

In June we saw a decrease in total unique job listings across 58% of markets, which continued a downward trend we have seen over the past few months. Total U.S. job listings fell 1.3% overall in June, and new job …

Being on vacation this week around the 4th, I will be keeping commentary to a bare minimum for our June non-farm payroll forecast – an unfortunate disservice to the magnitude of our forecast given that we project a loss of …

  In May we saw an increase in total unique job listings across 64% of markets, down from an increase across 73% of markets in April. Overall total job openings rose just 1% for the month, with new jobs openings …

Jobs in the cannabis industry have seen significant growth in the past year, and cannabis is now considered the fastest growing industry in the country. Just one year ago, we published the white paper Growing Like a Weed: The Impact …

Occasionally over the years, it’s been the case that as I am working on our non-farm payroll forecast, I’ll hear a song that is extremely relevant to the current employment situation. It happened again this month when I recently heard …

Discretionary spending is up in 2019. However, while people might be buying plenty of things, it appears cars aren’t on their must-have-it-now list. Slow Q1 sales have been commonplace for major automotive retailers since 2016. (See below chart.) As sales …