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Scooped by Hal onto Gold and What Moves it. |
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"The CME has reduced margin requirements on quite a few of their traded instruments.
"In the case of gold and silver futures contracts, the reductions seem designed to bring the margins paid by specs more in line with those required of 'the professionals.' ..."
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Employment is dead in the water because opportunities for organic expansion are few and the cost basis of doing business in the U.S. keeps rising. Let's start by reviewing the basics of employment in the U.S. Courtesy of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, here is the non-institutional civilian population of the U.S. (Note that the Civilian Non-institutional Population With No Disability, 16 years and over (LNU00074593)--roughly speaking, the workforce of the nation-- is 215 million). Here is the percentage of the population with some kind of job: note this could be self-employment that earns $1,000 a year or a job with 4 hours a week; recall that 38 million American workers earn less than $10,000 per year, 50 million earn less that $15,000 a year and 61 million earn less than $20,000 annually. All these numbers are drawn directly from Social Security Administration payroll data. ...
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