Lack of Workers, Not Work, Weighs on Utah’s Economy

by | May 21, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economic Conditions and Trends, Economics, Federal Reserve System, Finance, Labor and Jobs, Non-Bank Loans, Qualtrics, Shortages, Unemployment, United States Economy, Utah, Wages and Salaries, Working Capital

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM May 21, 2017 SALT LAKE CITY — Stephanie Pappas and her brothers built their roofing supply company in this fast-growing region by promising next-day delivery, but lately they’ve been forced to tell some customers that...

Economic Trends: We’re Getting Awfully Close to Full Employment

by | May 5, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Labor and Jobs, Unemployment, Working Capital

Economic Trends By NEIL IRWIN May 5, 2017 There is one prism through which we should analyze the April jobs numbers released Friday and each of the remaining reports in 2017: How close to full employment are we, really? That is the apparently simple yet...

U.S. Jobs Report: What to Watch For

by | Apr 7, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Labor and Jobs, Labor Department (US), Unemployment, United States Economy, Working Capital

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ April 7, 2017 At 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Friday, the Labor Department will report the latest figures on hiring and unemployment in March. Fairly or not, the data will be a measure of President Trump’s success in terms of job...

Automation Nation: Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs

by | Mar 28, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Factories and Manufacturing, Finance, Labor and Jobs, Robots and Robotics, Unemployment, Wages and Salaries, Working Capital

Automation Nation By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER March 28, 2017 Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner:...

Economic View: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?

by | Mar 17, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Desmond, Matthew S (1980- ), Economics, Finance, Gans, Herbert, Labor and Jobs, Sociology, Unemployment, United States Economy, Working Capital

March 17, 2017 Economic View By NEIL IRWIN Walk half a city block in downtown Washington, and there is a good chance that you will pass an economist; people with advanced training in the field shape policy on subjects as varied as how health care is provided,...