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ZeroHedge claims No Country For Young Workers: Only Americans 55 And Older Found Jobs In March . We first showed back in October 2012 that in America, courtesy of the Fed’s micro-mismanagement of everything, the labor force has been turned upside down, and the only jobs being created are those for aged workers, Americans 55 and over. The reason is two-fold: with savings rates at zero, Americans who were on the verge of retiring found that the fruit of their labor was worth nothing under ZIRP (and may well be punished under the upcoming NIRP) as their savings (and fixed income investments) generate zero interest income, while young Americans would rather stay in college by the millions funded generously by trillions in Uncle Sam student loans
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Expect applications to Stanford university to soar with this announcement: Tuition free for Families Earning Less than $125,000 Per Year .
For discussion of income distribution, please see What’s "Really" Behind Gross Inequalities In Income Distribution? Birth Death Model Starting January 2014, I dropped the Birth/Death Model charts from this report. For those who follow the numbers, I retain this caution: Do not subtract the reported Birth-Death number from the reported headline number
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Factory Orders Unexpectedly Rise Snapping String of 6 Straight Declines After six straight months of factory orders unexpectedly declining, economists apparently were finally convinced that bad weather would continue indefinitely. Factory orders rose, albeit barely, and last month was revised way lower, nonetheless it was amusing to see economists expectations were in the wrong direction for the seventh straight month.