“Private-sector hiring this year remained strong as employers reported adding more workers to their payrolls in March than expected, according to a report released Wednesday,” Joshua Jamerson reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Private payrolls across the nation rose by 263,000 last month, said payroll processor Automatic Data Processing Inc. and forecasting firm Moody’s Analytics. This was much better than a gain of 180,000 expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.”
“In February, ADP’s report showed the private-sector added 298,000 jobs,” Jamerson reports. “‘The gains are broad based but most notable in the goods producing side of the economy including construction, manufacturing and mining,’ said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics.”
“Most of the job gains came from small businesses, defined by ADP as companies with 49 or fewer employees. These firms added 118,000 jobs,” Jamerson reports. “Midsize firms with 50 to 499 employees added 100,000 workers, while large businesses added 45,000.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Economists again caught off guard? Big surprise.
More good news for Apple as more people with discretionary income means more sales of Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, AirPods, etc.!
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The Obama recovery continues.
Ha! Good one!
Let’s see, what recently changed to so drastically improve the mood of the country? Hmm…
Figures, the Dem/Lib/Progs can’t figure it out. Here’s a hint:
There were eight-two consecutive quarters of job growth under Obama. So two consecutive quarters of job grown under Trump would not yet qualify as “drastically improve[d].”
I know. They are just easily led and will fall for anything out of the incompetent, lying, sexual predators mouth. Oh wait, that’s being second, third, etc in line in what is the tRump human centipede.
These are the same numbers lower or higher that several months ago Trump and the rest of the GOP were claiming to be fixed and not to be believed. Now they’re OK.
What thing has Trump done since being sworn in office to affect the economy?
See how easily led the tRumpanzees are. Like P. T. Barnum said.. there is a sucker born every minute.
Trump is also taking credit for Fords’ decision to move jobs back in the US in 2015.
Since Trump won the election the market has added some 2500 to 3000 points. Yet holiday sales were miserable. 2017 started out as in many previous years with massive store closings. Sears announced they may go out of business. New store openings for 2017 are almost non existent. But the stock market went up 3000 points. All Trump has done is sign executive orders at night in the white house then run tho his private golf course in Fl. on the weekends.
Trump wasn’t president during “yet holiday sales were miserable.”
get a calendar.
Hate to tell you nimrod, but the growth in the job market has been continuous since the bottoming out of the Bush/Cheney Republican Recession/Depression. You can look at the famous Bikini Chart.
https://goo.gl/images/QdhY5B
You see, the economy always does better under Democrats- Wall Street to Main Street. Those are the plain and simple facts.
Republicans have also shown themselves incapable of balancing a budget, funny how deficits only matter when a Democrat is in charge.
By the way, Sparky, how’s that repeal and replace The Affordable Care Act coming along. The Trump/Ryan fuck everybody Health Care Plan is dead on arrival and it’s version 2 seems to have taken a trip to Planned Parenthood for an abortion.
No, I did not vote for the Republican Hillary Clinton or the National Socialist Trump. I voted for the idiot Gary Johnson.
You Democrat apologists are pathetic.
The Recession/Depression was caused by the mortgage meltdown which was caused by Democrat policies. It had nothing to do with Bush/Cheney.
I am not a Democrat and the proper term would be Democratic apologists in these United States. Were you home schooled or is English your second tongue?
“I am not a Democrat..”
liar.
Really, and how would you know?
I actually cut my political teeth working on the Reagan 1980 Campaign, FYI.
Kind of blows your whole accusation apart, huh?
If that is true, as you say, then you certainly have never espoused Reaganesque philosophy on this forum.
I grew up. Modern Conservatism is like the really cute girl you think you like until you find out she is an airhead.
Supply Side does not work, Star Wars did not work, The Cold War was well over before Reagan took office- I served in Europe in the 1980’s and everybody but Americans knew it was over.
Modern Conservatives cannot stay out of people’s bedrooms, doctor’s offices (abortion rights), deny peer reviewed science, do not respect civil liberties excepting gun rights and cannot balance a budget. 9-11 also happened on Bush/Cheney’s watch.
Conservatives talk a good game, but serve their paymasters and use fear of the other like a Trump Card, if you will.
The simple fact is that the economy and citizens do better when Democrats are in office than Republicans. I am not a registered Democrat as the modern party is far from what it should be, but the Republican Party of Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower and such is long gone. Republicans once sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, helped pass the Voting Rights Act, helped establish Medicaid, helped pass the Clean Air and Water Acts, helped establish the EPA.
The best thing that could happen to America would be for the Republican Party to return to it’s once far more moderate and tolerant stance. The inmates are running the asylum in the GOP.
By the way, if this were Oblahblah’s second full month in office, I highly doubt you’d be thanking President Bush for it. You’d be giving Oblahblah the Nobel Prize. Oh, wait. Idiots just like you already did that. What a joke!
(BTW: Club Gitmo is still open, Dem/Lib/Prog suckers!)
When Obama came to office he inherited a stock market that was collapsing until it reached 6550 from a high of 14K. Obama inherited an unemployment rate that in Jan 2008 was 5% but 7.8% in Jan 2009 when he came in. That unemployment rate never stopped going up until it reached 10%. Thanks Bush.
Thank Democrats. Their policies gave us the mortgage meltdown.
Ask Barney Frank. He was telling us that Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac were fine all the way until they crashed. Meanwhile, he had his unqualified gay lover working there. Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac were owned by Democrats. It was a piggie bank/jobs boondoggle for Dems. They got all their friends jobs there.
@ First 2014, Then 2016
Dude let go – and get a life
That is your argument, Fwhatever? Now you claim to know what other people think and would do? You have certainly imbibed the Trumpade of Hubris…
I am a realist. I would have evaluated the situation as it existed. You, on the other hand, cannot abide anything that conflicts with your chosen viewpoint. No wonder you voted Trump…you are very like him in personality.
Well, at least he has just one personality, Melvin, while you have three.
Speaking of multiple personalities, yours is utterly unique. I doubt that anyone could credibly imitate yours. As for women, that point is moot, as we apparently exhibit an unfathomable spectrum of moods, as Freud grumbled. Come to realise, Trump himself does a fair impersonation of a caricature of a petulant woman leader, something along the lines of Hamilton but with a gender-bending twist. I can visualise the marquees: Hilarity Ensues! The true story of how Trump morphed into Clinton out of political necessity and hubris! Alert the White House—act quickly to deter these activist screenwriters or face devastating ridicule and resultant political decimation.
Melvin White
Melvin Black
and Jane.
Hannah! Is that YOU?! While I disagree about half the time with your commentary, I still very much enjoy your wit and writing style.
BTW; I don’t agree with this one.
This is from Commerce Dept. figures, though likely racist, and of course somehow not the fault of Obama, even though his figure was propped up by zero interest rates.
It is the average growth rate of every administration since World War 2, as follows:
Johnson (1964-68), 5.3 percent
Kennedy (1961-63), 4.3 percent
Clinton (1993-2000), 3.9 percent
Reagan (1981-88), 3.5 percent
Carter (1977-80), 3.3 percent
Eisenhower (1953-60), 3 percent
Nixon (1969-74), 2.8 percent
Ford (1975-76), 2.6 percent
G.H.W. Bush (1989-92), 2.3 percent
G.W. Bush (2001-08), 2.1 percent
Truman (1946-52), 1.7 percent
Obama (2009-16), 1.6 percent
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.’ ”
– Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
Thank you 👍✌️
You probably could wrap yourself around the concept of (all numbers are fictitious to make a point) when you have a million and you increase it by 100,000 you have 10% increase. When you have a billion and you increase it by 90 million, you have a 9% increase. My point is that the economy was much smaller in the early 60’s, there was still the momentum from growth after WWII and so reaching a goal of 5% then is much harder than 5% now when the economy is so much greater.
David, the near-zero interest rates began years before during the Bush Administration! Get real! The stimulative be fits of the low interest rates had already been depleted in the housing bubble which began a collapse of historic proportions *before* Obama took office. If you insist on twisting the facts, then you will never truly understand the world.
David, this is a perfect example of Benjamin Disraeli’s statement about “lies, damn lies, and statistics”.
The Obama period was lowered by the deepest and longest recession (near depression) since the “Great Depression”. Go back and include the first eight years of the Roosevelt administration, then do that comparison.
Why was Truman’s so low? It was dragged down by the recession after WWII (similar but not the same). Similar circumstances to the Obama period.
The figure was not “propped up” by zero interest rates. The fed rate was never zero — even though, because of the recession, there were months of negative inflation. Besides, economic growth is only loosely tied to interest rates, inflation is often more directly tied to interest rates. Note that the Carter era and the Reagan era had interest rates and high inflation and still had the fourth and fifth highest growth periods you list. Thus the “real” growth rate was different than what your statistics portray.
Learn a bit about economics (you don’t need to be an expert). You might then understand why the numbers are the way they are.
And, for those blindly in the republican camp… four of the top five growth rates you list are during Democrat presidents.
By what metric do you define growth?
GDP, or Income, or Employment or Buying Power.
Each would yield different results.
Some aspects of an economy are the direct result of government actions and others are partially or completely independent from it. The harsh recession of the late 70’s early 80’s was a direct consequence of the sharp increase of the price of Oil which impacts every aspect of our economy as the products of the Petrochemical industry are in just about everything you have. 1 calorie of food these days takes q0 calories of fossil fuel input, for example.
If you offer a stat, qualify the source and the definition or it really holds no water.
As to employment, it takes about 145,000 new jobs every month to keep unemployment numbers flat. Less new jobs on a monthly basis increase unemployment even though no jobs were lost. That number is the average number of new entrants to the job markets. As scientists say- gawd is in the details.
Obama’s “recovery” continues in Tahiti where he is currently hiding.
Jealous much.
oh yes, I am so jealous, I have always wanted to be a Muslim Usurper whose goal is to destroy The West.
You nearly succeeded, then, botty. You are a jackass usurper whose attitude and actions threaten the health and welfare of this country.
oh, I thought it was Trump doing that for you Melvin, I am so flattered.
uh, I didn’t vote for any Bush.
wrong again, troglodyte.
actually, it’s a van down by the river, raychiss.
Meanwhile: Down two points from last week! 🤡
Poll: Trump approval rating plummets
President Trump’s approval rating has tumbled 11 points since March, according to a new poll released Monday.
Thirty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance in the latest Investor’s Business Daily (IBD)/TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP) survey.
Thank You Obama! Let Trump ruin this.
You might as well thank Maxine Waters.
That’s not Maxine Waters. Nice try racist pig.
Citizen X’s geography teacher:
You’re welcome.
This is a stretch to be included in a site “where mac news comes first.”
Hardly a stretch. The U.S. economy is highly important to Apple Inc. with sells high-end, premium-priced consumer electronics.
Apple seemed to be doing pretty well over the last few years when there was a different president. I don’t recall a lot of MDN posts about how well the economy was doing during that period.
In a way, that makes my point. I hope your list isn’t all inclusive. The six reports you cite since 2013 are all negative. You’d never know jobs were added for 82 consecutive quarters and the unemployment rate dropped from 10.0% to around 4.7% based upon that sample.
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/07/508600239/what-kind-of-jobs-president-has-obama-been-in-8-charts
First of all, it was consecutive months, not “quarters,” of the U.S. adding “jobs.”
Secondly, the U.S. lost major ground on jobs under Oblahblah.
“The six reports you cite since 2013 are all negative.”
It’s not MDN’s fault the U.S. electorate elected a neo-Marxist proponent of the failed Keynesian fairytale. Sometimes, the U.S. electorate is masochistic.
Thankfully, after eight very long years, U.S. voters finally woke up and put a capitalist back in charge. This is the reason for the renewed optimism and rapid creation of hundreds of thousands of quality jobs, not crappy burger-flipping service jobs.
The only reason that Keynesian economics has survived for so long in western thinking is not because it works, or even makes any sense, but because it justifies what liberal politicians already want to do – spend with reckless abandon, run bigger and bigger deficits so they don’t have to explicitly pay for it with higher taxes today, and run up the national debt, which will be someone else’s problem later. — Peter Ferrara , Forbes, April 14, 2013
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.’ ”
-Sparkles
All of us naturally react strongly to distasteful ideas, regardless of their statistical clothing. Paradoxically, it is when there is no clothing at all, that we begin to suspect that we might have been taken in. Statistical facts are precious shreds of truth that can oppose brazen claims of virtue for oneself and of calumny for one’s enemies. — Santayana
well, raychiss, stone her by all means, it is the modus operandi of your messiah, The Muslim Usurper.
Chaps your hide that you have to back lying sexual predators because you don’t want to admit that the last President, Obama, was a great President.
You are pathetic. You actually worship a sexual predator.
I’d like to point out that these are not the official numbers, nor are they calculated the same way. The official job numbers are calculated from the 15th of the month to the 15th of the month, as the 15th has not happened yet it cannot be stated what the job growth is. I would also like to point out that this survey over estimates almost every month, and does not take into account the churn of certain industries as it was done in between payroll cycles.
Trump’s tax plan of corporate and business taxes reduced to 15% is key to a true and lasting economic recovery.
He doesn’t have a tax plan. He doesn’t have any plans. Only petty Obama is so mean, I have to throw a tantrum and crap out executive orders like he has the runs.
Libtard dosage: take hourly for eight years.
http://www.midol.com
What is your dosage. I guess it is not up to you being the last in the human centipede chain attached to tRumps ass.
do you have any concept of how vulgar, witless and stupid you are?
nevermind, was a silly question.
That is rich, botty, as many in this forum perceive you as vulgar and witless (and redundant in your posts).
Call 1-800-GIV-ASHT, Melvin.
“SAD!”
you’re channeling Trump’s Twitter prose now, raychiss?
It’s the only intelligent thing he has said.
RAYCHISS!
hey raychiss, you better hurry and get to the other side of the island before Guam capsizes.
Your as mentally deficient and crazy as tRump. What the hell does guam have to do with anything?
Run away. A sexual predator want me to join his human centipede chain.
oh, no, look, raychiss…the president is a rich white guy!
Who is raychiss?
RAYCHISS!!
You tRumpanzees are pathetic.
By the way. Hows that swamp tRump wallows in. I hope rearranging the deck chairs helps his dementia before he sinks into that swamp.
Funny how the legacy Obama left was the reason for the Syrian gas attack but the legacy Obama left has nothing to do with these jobs created.
Blame your predecessor for everything? A good strategy when you grew up coddled, and aren’t used to owning up to your shortcomings, and don’t know what else to say because you don’t understand the situation, and don’t even care, and take criticism like a spoilt little girl with a broken bowl of porridge at her feet.
SO amazing that people here so frothingly support this lying, incoherent, planless bullshitter, so obviously in the early stages of Alzheimers.
is it “SAD!” too, raychiss?
Yep. Sad that you worship a lying sexual predator. Actually it makes you pathetic.
said a member of The Pedophile Party.
RAYCHISS!!
Weak. You reference the pedophile party. Some nebulous entity scheming to molest children. Please, grow up. At least I have a concrete example (tRump) as the sexual predator you worship. An actual person. An admitted sexual predator.
rAYChiss! baByfÜckER!
The great unraveling begins. You are still a pathetic lying sexual predator supporter no matter how pathetic your attempts to make me feel bad.
Who is raychiss?
YOU are racist, you piece of shït.
LOL.. poor pathetic tRumpanzee
are you referring to the current PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
….meanwhile, Raychiss’s supergal wanders the dank, cold forests of Chappaqua, dragging her quart of Chivas Regal behind her, mumbling to her only friends: the squirrels.
“Why aren’t I fifty points ahead, you might ask..” …then she vomits..
again.
Who is raychiss?