Showing posts with label Utah Pulse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utah Pulse. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2012

SandBox Utah Utah Pulse "Governor’s Office of Economic Development Expands Global Reach at Expomin"

Utah Pulse:
"Several Utah contracting, engineering and mining business leaders have gone south for the winter. But this was not a vacation. The Utah business and trade delegation joined Miguel Rovira, the regional director for the Americas at the Governor’s Office of Economic Development’s (GOED) International Trade and Diplomacy Office (ITDO) and over 60,000 global participants in Santiago, Chile, for Latin America’s largest and most important mining trade show, Expomin.

Expomin lured over 1,200 exhibitors from 30 countries. More than a dozen Utah companies touched down in Santiago for Expomin, many of which met privately with other global companies in addition to their presence on the floor of the trade show....." (Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

Sunday, April 15, 2012

SandBox Utah: Utah Pulse "Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - '8.2%…or 11.3%?'"

The real unemployment rate is definitely 11.3%.  Higher when you factor in all those underemployed and/or unable to qualify for benefits any longer.  Wouldn't it be nice to have mainstream media report the factual numbers?  Sort of puts us all 'between a Barack and a hard place' when they do not.

Jeff Thredgold:
"March employment gains were less than expected, less than exciting, less than worth writing home about and will again pose the question of whether U.S. job creation is about to slow as summer months approach.  Such a pattern occurred during the past two years.


The American economy added 120,000 net new jobs during March, sharply below the consensus view of 205,000 net new jobs.  The gain was the smallest in five months and was less than half the average gain of the three prior months.  In addition, previously reported job gains during January and February were revised higher by only 4,000 jobs, breaking a pattern of sizable upward revisions to prior data that had largely been in place for some time....."  (Read more? Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."