How has the Great Recession compared to past U.S. recessions? There might be no better graph -- er, scarier graph -- to answer that question than this one from Calculated Risk. It matches job losses ...

Friday (6/6) we get the May employment readings. Therefore, it’s time to get prepared and, in particular, to protect ourselves from the negative twists that seem to accompany these reports, regardless ...

The overall jobs picture is bleak. But when you look at individual sectors of the economy, the picture is more nuanced. Some sectors are getting... Update, 8:52 a.m.: The number of non-farm jobs in ...

Reader MC sent me the following graph and asked "This chart looks highly questionable for a number of reasons. Any thoughts?" Usually I ignore this nonsense, but I have a little extra time today - and ...

In the Sun’s cheerleading ‘news coverage’ of the start of the election campaign, it’s zeal for bashing the Labour party appears to have blinded it to the evidence on its own pages. This graph, ...