Permanent Job Losses Past Tech Recession

Pretty good jobs number this morning – excluding the fact we still have missing millions of jobs from February and labor participation is way down.

The real concerning part – and what I’ve mentioned many times in my econ talks – is that temporary is becoming permanent. Here’s a comparison of permanent job losses of the last 3 recessions.

There was a large increase in permanent job losses and we have now equaled the tech recession.

These jobs will take a long time to come back and will stall a recover even once we get good testing and/or a vaccine.

Sideways… Not just a Movie, Our Recovery

It’s been a while since I posted about restaurant and travel data. Well, not much has changed by in a few weeks. The recovery of the most impacted industries continues to move sideways.

The recovery has clearly slowed. It will be interesting to see how travel data fairs after Labor Day as a majority of that will be business travel.