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		<title>July &amp; August jobs update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide Here are the latest numbers, with revisions, since April: Month Change Employment Unemployment Rate Apr. +112,000 135,017,000 4.7% May +100,000 135,117,000 4.6% June +134,000 135,251,000 4.6% July +123,000 135,374,000 4.8% Aug. +188,000 135,562,000 4.7% Sept. +51,000 135,613,000 4.6% April was revised downward from +126,000 to +112,000. May was revised upward from +75,000 to +100,000. June was revised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=14&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dow hits new high</title>
		<link>http://amateureconomist.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/dow-hits-new-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. The Dow Jones Industrial average has finally risen above it&#8217;s previous record set in January, 2000. It&#8217;s taken almost 7 years. It closed yesterday at 11,727. Given the way things have been going I don&#8217;t expect it to rise above that level for a while, but I could be wrong. I listened to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=13&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experts say recession coming for Colorado</title>
		<link>http://amateureconomist.wordpress.com/2006/09/14/experts-say-recession-coming-for-colorado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article from the Daily Camera predicts a &#8220;recession&#8221; for Colorado next year. It mostly focuses on job projections, but cites retail sales predictions at the end. Experts disagree a bit on how much jobs will grow next year, anywhere between 1.4% and 1.9%. Tucker Hart Adams, an economist of U.S. Bank projected the lower figure, whereas C.U. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=12&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tech market slowing down in Boulder County</title>
		<link>http://amateureconomist.wordpress.com/2006/08/05/tech-market-slowing-down-in-boulder-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article published July 31 in the Daily Camera, a Boulder paper. It provides a good summary of layoffs and reorganizations that have been happening lately with technology companies in Boulder County.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=11&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the latest employment figures, with adjustments. Nationwide Month Change Employment Unemployment Rate May +100,000 135,117,000 4.6% June +124,000 135,241,000 4.6% July +113,000 135,354,000 4.8% The country has gained 978,000 jobs so far this year. Job growth has been slowing down some. By this point last year the country had gained 1,222,000 jobs for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=10&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>13% of men have dropped out of the job market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard about this on Tucker Carlson&#8217;s program on MSNBC. Yes it&#8217;s true. 13% of men from the ages of 30 to 54 have dropped out of the job market. They are not looking, sometimes for years at a time. You can read the article at the New York Times. I&#8217;ll have the new employment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=9&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the latest stats, with revisions. Nationwide Month Change Num. Employed Unemployment Rate Apr +112,000 135,017,000 4.7% May +92,000 135,109,000 4.6% June +121,000 135,230,000 4.6% Colorado Month Change Num. Employed Unemployment Rate Apr -1,100 2,263,100 4.3% May +1,800 2,264,900 4.5% Colorado has gained 15,300 jobs beyond the previous benchmark level set in Dec., 2000. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=8&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up in 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the statistics the BLS has given for this year to date. Nationwide 2006 Month Change Num. Employed Unemployment Rate Jan. +154,000 134,530,000 4.7% Feb. +200,000 134,730,000 4.8% Mar. +175,000 134,905,000 4.7% Apr. +126,000 135,031,000 4.7% May +75,000 135,106,000 4.6% Economic watchers have noted the gain of only 75,000 jobs in May. Economists I&#39;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=7&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happened in Colorado from 2001-2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado (statewide) The decline in employment began earlier here&#160;than it did nationally. The high point was in December, 2000 when 2,249,600 people had jobs and the unemployment rate was 2.6%. The decline began in January, 2001 and continued through July, 2003. By this point&#160;Colorado lost 103,600 jobs, and the unemployment rate ended up at 6.3%. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=6&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happened in the U.S. from 2001-2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is review material, just to give some background. The economic downturn and recovery we went&#160;through&#160;was&#160;longer than people have been used to. Below I&#39;ll explain what the job data shows happened. For the U.S. as a whole the downward trend in the&#160;job market began in March, 2001.&#160;The high point in the national job market was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amateureconomist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=230515&amp;post=5&amp;subd=amateureconomist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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