Stronger jobs report sends rates up a bit. Here’s all the numbers.

The Super Bowl gets thousands of hours of analysis whereas the jobs report mostly gets headlines of jobs created and the unemployment rate. Here’s an attempt to balance it out.

European contagion concerns still outweighing better U.S. economic data. Result: rates stay low as MBS remain safe haven.

The average newspaper has 10 times more analysis of a football game than it does of the jobs market. Here’s an attempt to balance it out.

Rates resilient once again, and look to end week up just slightly on improving economic news.

We should pay attention to the labor participation rate not the unemployment rate because labor participation drives the economy.

All today’s stats with charts. Generally good reports.

Market recap/outlook in plain English.

Politicians love to talk about “job creators” when pitching their policies. It’s a ridiculous phrase, which is why I was so glad to see The Onion give it a proper beat-down this week. As usual, the headline says it all—Remains Of Ancient Race Of Job Creators Found In Rust Belt—but this is one of those [...]

Rates are down today—regaining some of yesterday’s rise and ending the week near record lows—after this morning’s BLS report showed the economy added 80k non-farm payrolls in October. Plus September was revised from 103,000 to 158,000 new jobs created and August was revised from 57,000 to 104,000. This figure doesn’t count actual people, it counts [...]