From The King Report

verfasst von CRASH_GURU, 06.04.2004, 09:34

-->From The King Report
M. Ramsey King Securities, Inc.
Monday April 5, 2004 - Issue 2890"Independent View of the News"

….We have never seen such a grossly misinterpreted Employment Report in our 30 years in this biz. But the nature of the wise-guy-dominated markets is to shoot first and analysis later. So if you don’t want to know the truth or if in the words of Jack Nicholson"You can’t handle the truth" ignore the following.

About release of the report, we immediately noticed some huge red flags. How could non-farm payrolls explode 308k when a) the unemployment rate increased to 5.7%; b) wage growth was less than expected at 0.1%; c) the"employed population ratio" actually FELL to 62.1% from 62.2%; d) the"employment participation rate" was unchanged at 65.9%; e) total employment was unchanged at 138.3m and most importantly f) the avg workweek fell 0.1 to 33.7, which is near a 40-year low (33.5)! (See table A-1.)

When dissecting the numbers we learned that NSA service job wages fell 8 cents and they accounted for 230k of the 308k job growth. Leisure & hospitality wages NSA fell 4 cents; and NSA avg hours worked fell 0.3. Something is obviously wrong. Healthcare contributed 36k jobs, leisure & hospitality 28k, retail 47k, government created 31k and the phantom jobs estimated to be created by small business was 153k! This is now known as the business birth/death rate. Apparently a large number of workers entered the workforce in order to force the unemployed rate higher, but still something seemed incredibly wrong.

After the close, our good friend and astute, no nonsense economist, ex-Fed official and investment adviser (at Van Hoisington Management), Lacy Hunt, provided the answers to the conundrum. Of the 308k jobs created, 296k are temporary or part-time jobs! Let us repeat and let’s be very clear, almost all jobs created in what is heralded as a great employment report are part-time jobs."In March, the number of persons who worked part time for economic reasons increased to 4.7 million, about the same level as in January. These individuals indicated that they would like to work full time but were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-5.)" People want full-time but can’t find it. Lacy opines that Congress did not renew unemployment benefits so many people took whatever they could get. This accounts for the surge in people entering the workforce. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm Lacy noticed other salient points in the
report. The average weekly paycheck in February for the private sector was $524.58; in March it fell an astounding 88 cents to $523.70. The area of job growth shows even worse numbers. The average weekly paycheck for leisure & hospitality workers is $225.55. Retail is $364.50. Now everything fits and conforms, especially to the large fundamental trend of persistent lowering of US living standards as those in Asia increase. This is great news for Bush and the US!?! And this is reason for TV broken-clock jackasses to hoot and holler?!? But there is more.

"The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.1 percent in March to 99.0 (2002=100). The manufacturing index was down by 0.3 percent over the month to 94.1. (See table B-5.)"

In the Employment report there is this illumination in Table A-7:"NOTE: Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2004, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey." So we checked to see why the caveat."More unemployed" increased 182k; but in the table, men age 20+ saw unemployment increase 182k. Women age 20+ had a 142k increase in unemployment. That totals 346k more unemployed by real math, but not BLS math. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm

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