Ted’s Tweets March 13 2015 – April 1 2015
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
View ArticleAnother Top-10 List — The Top (and Bottom) Residential Markets in Price...
Housing continues to gain strength and the prognosis is for more of the same. Gains are approaching systemic levels across the country, though some markets still trail and others excel. In a study of...
View ArticleAnother Top-10 List — Things to Never Say at a Job Interview
The Federal Reserve has a dual-pronged mission to accomplish. The first is full employment, which they define as having unemployment in the 5.25 to 5.50 percent range. Since the U.S. is at 5.5 percent,...
View ArticleTed’s Tweets April 3 2015 – April 16 2015
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall – Which States Grow Most Jobs of All?
Jobs are everything to an economy. Period. How you count jobs, however, can change the outcome of the winners and losers. In most circumstances economists look at the change year-over-year and also...
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Metro Employment – Where It’s At and Where It’s Nyet – March 2015
Earlier this week the Jones on Real Estate Blog was about comparative state employment growth rates encompassing a short-, mid- and long-term perspective. This blog takes the same methodology and...
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Another Top-10 List — Hottest Housing Markets in the U.S.
We all want to be winners. Not everyone is always a winner, however. Last year’s or last week’s winners are not necessarily winners today. How do you define winners? In statistics, perhaps the most...
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Another Top 10-List — Best and Worst Entry Level Jobs for 2015
It’s graduation time of the year once again, and tens of thousands of freshly-minted college graduates will be heading out for what to most will be their first full-time job. The first job that a...
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Another Top-10 List — States With Largest Income Inequality
Roosevelt’s two New Deals (1933 and 1935 which included the rollout of Social Security) and then Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society brought income inequality front and center as a national issue....
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April 2015 U.S. Job Market — Two Steps Forward and One Step Back
Good news is that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a preliminary April 2015 job increase of 223,000 net new jobs. Bad news was two-fold. First they cut the preliminary March 2015 number...
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May 2015 Job Growth Best of the Year at 280,000 Net New Jobs
The U.S. posted the best monthly job gain of 2015 in May, adding 280,000 net new jobs versus a projected 210,000 by economists. The tally for the latest 12 months is 3.058 million new jobs, or an...
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Another Top-10 List — The Best Small Towns in America
Frequently mentioned in all studies of Millennials is their propensity to live where there is a higher quality of life and not necessarily the In Places to Be or those with the Greatest Income –...
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US Adds 223,000 Net New Jobs in June 2015 — Wages and Unemployment Relatively...
Job growth continued into June 2015 with the addition of 223,000 net new jobs. Economists at MarketWatch had anticipated 225,000, so expectations were essentially met. Previously preliminary job...
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The Leisure and Hospitality Segment — More than 1 Out of Every 10 Jobs in the...
Happy 4th of July to all. Safe travels to those 41.9 million American’s on the road, in the water or up in the air this three-day weekend. Now imagine the impact on real estate in the Leisure and...
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Where It’s Hot and Where It’s Not — Metro Job Growth Markets Mid-Year 2015...
Fort Collins, Colorado has the best sustainable job growth in the country. At least under my criteria. Read on to find out how we got there. As I always state, Jobs are Everything to an Economy....
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Where It’s Hot and Where It’s Not — State Job Growth Markets Mid-Year 2015...
This is the state employment sequel to the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Divisions Sustainable Job Growth Index – which you can view at...
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July 2015 Job Growth — More of the Same 215,000 Net New Jobs Added
Another month of monotony took place in U.S. jobs, with a preliminary gain of 215,000 net new jobs from June to July. While just less than one-half the gain seen from November to December 2015 of...
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Another Bottom-10 List — Toughest States to Find Full-Time Employment
Economists often use (or should use) the terms such as HOWEVER, IF and BUT that need to be said to comprehend the full context when analyzing or describing the economy. That’s why economists frequently...
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Job Creation Slows in September 2015 — The Fed Has an Empty Gas Tank
With job growth projected in the 200,000+ level for September 2015, the tepid 142,000 jobs added did not sit well with the markets. Even uglier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics readjusted downwards the...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Cities for Career Opportunities
Like it or not, how much a person makes today along with future potential income growth, coupled with the comparative cost of living all but dictates sustainable lifestyles and how one will retire,...
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