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Then again, they're getting their hands dirty.

Similar to volcanic lava flows, financial contagions start slowly at first and then end by destroying many things in its path.

Amazon's European workers are boycotting the company ahead of Amazon's global "Prime Day" to highlight the poor conditions that fulfillment-center staff have endured for years.

A new, startling report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warns that positive employment trends are at risk of being derailed by “unprecedented wage stagnation” affecting low-paid workers.

Soy is on the menu...

"...government jobs with the military constitute a form of taxpayer-funded subsidy for immigrants. And secondly, the US military acts as a job program, not just for immigrants but for many native-born Americans..."

It seems as both retailers [Walmart and Amazon] are progressing towards the Orwellian era of mass surveillance in the form of microchipping their workforce to improve labor efficiency...

"UBI isn’t an especially new idea; even Thomas Paine was an advocate. The idea gained traction and elicited debate in late 1960s (especially during the Nixon administration), but never really gained a foothold..."

... maybe the yield-curve is already telling the answer to these questions.

This report ranks the companies by Revenue Per Employee (RPE) to explore how efficiently the companies utilize human capital. Energy and Healthcare are high on the list, while Industrials and Consumer Discretionaries perform the worst.

In a US economy in which there was a perfect match between worker skills and employer needs, there would be zero unemployed workers at this moment

Promised pension benefits have blown past any ability of the state, the economy or taxpayers to pay for them...

Welcome to the future, citizen, where employees not replaced by robots will be granted raises based on their predicted performance by a computer.

“We believe in the principle of high wages.”

"...investors do NOT have 118 years to invest..."

Heading into 3Q, the economy is strong but may no longer be surging faster than it was last year, same time.

In June, the number of part-time workers rose by 145K to 27.028MM, while the full-time workers declined by a modest 89K to 128.658MM.

Ahead of today's payrolls report, there was some confusion: will Trump tweet about it (like he did last month), or won't he, and if not, is it because the number will be a disappointment? Moments ago we go the official answer.

The BLS will publish the June jobs report at 830am ET on Friday, just hours after Trump declares trade war on China. Here's what to look for in tomorrow's report.

Japanese cash wages soared by 2.1% y/y in May, up from 0.6% in April and more than double the median estimate of 0.9%, matching the fastest increase since 1994. And yet, at the same time, household spending tumbled at the fast pace in 2 years...