February 22nd, 2012 
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In the February Economic Outlook from Freddie Mac’s Office of the Chief Economist is projecting a slow, steady path to recovery as the economy, it says, continues to build on the momentum it displayed at the end of last year. The report cites 243,000 new jobs in January, an unemployment rate falling to 8.3 percent and an increase in job openings to 3.4 million in December as indications of improvement. At the same time, there was a relatively low level of 2 million “voluntary separations,” i.e. people quitting their jobs, that reflects a nervousness about the job market and a 1.2 percent drop in inflation-adjusted hourly wages, the steepest annual fall since 1989, also signaling job market weakness. The housing sector portion of the Freddie Mac report was a summary of information for the month…(read more)
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