Decoding Global Talent: Understanding Trends in US Immigration Where can employers find international talent eager to relocate to the U.S.? What are the primary factors that attract...
Conflicting Macro Data Causes Severe Headaches for the BoE GDP data showed an improving economy… Last week it looked like the U.K. economy had shaken off the shallow...
Weapons, Wine, and Beauty Products: The French Economy is Hot The French economy is doing well I recently discussed how the Eurozone is currently experiencing a reversal of fortunes....
Steering Through Challenges In a shift from the recent trend of a steadying labor market, Canada’s job market experienced a setback in...
Immigration Unexpectedly Thwarts the Population Time Bomb A population time bomb has been heralded as imminent for many years. Proponents of the theory forecast steep and...
The UK is in the Midst of a White-Collar Recession Even as the U.K. economy experienced a very shallow economic contraction last year, the labor market continued to add...
Germany, Literally the Sick Man of Europe Germany’s economy is unhealthy… We have previously discussed how Germany may again be the “sick man of Europe”. The...
Keeping Up With the DINKs The global fertility crisis Fertility rates across advanced economies have fallen dramatically and are expected to remain low indefinitely....
The U.K. Slipped Into Recession: What Does That Mean for the Labor Market? Outperforming expectations but underperforming peers While the U.K. economy has vastly outperformed growth expectations set last year, it needs...
Canada’s Labor Market Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back After a poor start to the year, the labor market in Canada surprisingly bounced back, adding 37,300 new jobs...
What Really Caused the Vibecession? On June 30th, 2022, Kyla Scanlon coined the term “vibecession”, suggesting that despite the economy performing better than expected,...
Revisions to the Job Numbers May Trouble the Fed Data revisions to the US jobs data can be large Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke published a fascinating memoir...
UK’s GDP Growth Looks Nice on the Surface The UK’s stability in international GDP rankings Bloomberg recently reported some good news that should cheer up readers in...
2024 US Labor Market Outlook: Moving to Beige (Stable and Boring) What can we expect from the U.S. labor market going into 2024? Beige. Yes, beige, the boring color. ...
A Tour of a Holiday Home, Told Through Charts Ah, the holiday season: The most wonderful time of the year! We decided to spark some holiday cheer by...
UK Outlook: Exceeding Expectations but… Stagnating? There is considerable uncertainty about the unemployment data As I explained earlier this year, the Office for National Statistics...
Eurozone 2024 Outlook: Monetary Policy in the Driver’s Seat Inflation is falling faster than anticipated The Eurozone was one of the regions affected the most by the energy...
US Jobs Market Won’t Quit! In November, the U.S. labor market added 199,000 net new jobs. The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.7%. Healthcare...
Rising Rates Were Tempting, But Forecasters Got Recession Calls Wrong Predicting recessions is futile If forecasters have learned anything from the last two years, it should be that predicting...
The BoE is Sacrificing the Labor Market… Blindly? Inflation has been way above target for more than two years now, giving monetary policy makers at the Bank...