US Small Business CEOs in More of a Hiring Mood

just not in Manhattan RE...

How did I know it was spunky again?

Hey forgot about this thread. Thanks. yes this is a good one to bring back to the front lines.

Do you think maybe if you find yourself forgetting about threads you started two days prior, you might perhaps be starting too many useless, pointless cheerleading threads, and should limit yourself to one a week?

no.

Maybe you should reconsider.

I dunno, maybe instead of acting like thought police, you could just ignore and let these threads fall to the wayside? But hey, just my 2 pennies.

Excerpt from "Jobs Report Signals a Long Haul for a Recovery" in today's NYT:

“We are seeing what appears to be evidence of structural unemployment among those in the prime, higher earning 35- to 44-year-old demographic, where unemployment actually increased in December,” he said.

In the days leading up to Friday’s report, some economists pointed to hopeful signs.

Consumer spending was on the rise, businesses were spending more, car sales were rising. And they pointed to private surveys that suggested the possibility of a sharp, or even explosive, increase in hiring by small and mid-size businesses.

[Chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, William C. Dunkelberg], however, noted that surveys of his membership — small- and medium-sized-business people — showed no trend toward such hiring. Fifty percent reported that they had no need to seek bank loans, as they little intention of hiring.

“The consumer still has way too much debt, and our members are very cautious,” he said.

Employment growth also decelerated a bit toward the end of the year, with the biggest increases in jobs coming in October — the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the number up still higher Friday to over 200,000 new jobs that month. Adam Hersh, an economist with the liberal leaning Center for American Progress, recently ran a set of calculations to see when, at the current pace, the economy would reacquire the number of jobs lost during the Great Recession. The answer? 2037.

"Do you think maybe if you find yourself forgetting about threads you started two days prior, you might perhaps be starting too many useless, pointless cheerleading threads, and should limit yourself to one a week?"

ha, funny and true

There's always something pleasantly incongruous and oxymoronic about bwj's posts, like this one: "I dunno, maybe instead of acting like thought police, you could just ignore and let these threads fall to the wayside?"

So in the very act of accusing someone of acting like the thought police, bjw acts like the - you guessed it! - thought police!