Weekly Economic Update: July 10 – July 14, 2017
The Weekly Economic Update's Chart of the Week features a look at job openings and hirings. The number of job openings increased to a series high of 6.0 million on the last business day of April while hires fell to 5.1 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
June 2017 Jobs Review
222,000 nonfarm payrolls jobs were added in June, which was more than expected. The headline unemployment rate (U-3) ticked up slightly to 4.4% as more people entered the labor force.
Weekly Economic Update: July 3 – July 7, 2017
The Weekly Economic Update's Chart of the Week comes from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), which shows that the United States remained the world's top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons* in 2016 for the fifth straight year.
State-By-State Obamacare Reports
Specific state-by-state snapshots of the state of Obamacare. You’ll find information about premium increases declining choices.
Weekly Economic Update: June 26 – June 30, 2017
The Weekly Economic Update's Chart of the Week shows the amount of new commercial banks opening by year from 1990-2015. Fewer new banks means less competition.
Obamacare’s Unstable Because of… Obamacare!
Health insurance companies fleeing the Obamacare marketplaces are nothing new, but, the most recent exits are attributed to “uncertainty” in the marketplace and some are placing the blame for this on the wrong source.
Weekly Economic Update: June 19 – June 23, 2017
This week's edition features a look back at the Congressional Baseball Game's historical scores, our take on the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates, new analysis on Obamacare enrollment and the latest state employment data.
Four Takeaways on Obamacare’s Collapsing Enrollment
The Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) released two reports on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual marketplace exchanges addressing the number of people who actually activated[ii] their enrollment by paying their premium after initially signing up for insurance coverage.
June FOMC Review
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) increased the federal funds rate target range by 25 basis points (0.25%) to 1.00-1.25%.
Weekly Economic Update: June 12 – June 16, 2017
The Chart of the Week shows the rise in opioid overdose death rates since 1999. Since then, the largest year-over-year increases in the opioid overdose death rate were in 2014 and 2015, just after the individual mandate, Obamacare exchanges, and Medicaid expansions were implemented. While the graph ...
