Unemployment rate dropped to 4.5% even as big losses of construction and factory jobs restrained overall payroll growth. Wages grew briskly.
What does this mean to you? In the long term higher prices as employers find it harder to find employees. So they pay more to get someone. It also means customer service that stinks. Not always, but often when you have to hire the bottom of the barrel and are scared to fire them for their miserable attitudes out of fear of not being able to get someone to work at all, you settle.
How is that for being negative with the positive news coming in? What this says is the economy is strong, the housing market is wearing on it, the fuel prices have been wearing on it, but it is still keeping steady. The policies of cutting taxes and spending money do help create jobs, and thus a positive environment for the economy.
Start looking for signs of weakness in China, or in the USA. If you see any more weaknesses the economy might be headed for a downturn. Until then, it’s not the economy stupid!
