Labor Markets: All The Signals Are Green

Photo caption: Speaks for itself. Photo credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images. Article by Milton Ezrati. Forbes – August 6, 2021.

Everything about the Labor Department’s July employment report is positive. Unemployment is down and employment is up. The message is clear: the economy’s recovery from last year’s lockdowns and quarantines has a powerful forward momentum that should carry on for a while at least, provided, of course, that Covid’s Delta variant does not prompt a renewed round of economic strictures. […]

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