The housing market continues its wild ride with the latest news of trouble for ubiquitous online real estate marketplace, Zillow. The company recently announced the shutdown of its ibuying segment. Zillow abruptly halted the program in mid-October with the announcement …
As we look back on the third quarter of 2021 we see a labor market still clearly showing stress due to the lingering effects of the pandemic. In the most recent edition of our Economic Indicators Report, we do see …
Regarding the job market, the dominant narrative over the past few months has been that an unprecedented labor shortage is to blame for all sorts of nasty maladies afflicting the nation – evils ranging from the murder of the economic …
Jeni Kramer
Our nation’s infrastructure is set to get a massive funding boost courtesy of the Federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act and bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In their new report entitled Hard-to-Fill Infrastructure Jobs: A Challenge to Building Our …
Nic Gustafson
September holds mixed messages We begin the fall season on a not entirely positive note. Though job listings are still increasing—active job listings were up 2.7% last month, that’s an increase from the previous month’s 0.6%—the news isn’t all sunshine …
Jeni Kramer
There’s been a lot of talk swirling around what is arguably the country’s most recognizable name in the automotive industry. Ford recently grabbed headlines after it was revealed that Doug Field, Apple’s head of smart car research, is departing the …
Toby Dayton
This past May, following a disappointing jobs report for April, we posited that the job market was not afflicted with a labor shortage but rather a wage shortage. In subsequent months, we expanded our argument by laying out the case …
Jeni Kramer
Apples to apples? In this market, it might make more sense to compare Apples to unicorns. Currently, that exchange rate is right around 1 to every 800. There are now more than 800 “unicorns” or private startup companies worth more …
Another day, another Amazon headline. The world’s largest online retailer is making news again, this time with their recently announced plans to hire more than 125,000 warehouse and transportation workers. Delving into our data we can see a 13% increase …
Nic Gustafson
It appears we’re closing the summer on a hot streak as overall job listings continued to rise in August for the 6th month in a row. While the trajectory is positive, the pace of growth continues to slow with August …
