By traderseye

October 27, 2011
David England: Well that’s the number that is put out by the Department of Labor and that will tell us what our true unemployment rate is for the previous month. Now one of the things we need to take a look at is can we get it underneath 9.1 but the actual unemployment rate when we look at the people that are underemployed and can’t be employed and won’t be employed is really over 16%. You know one of the things I learned when I was in college, and it was kind of frightening to me, was the aspect that even when we have full employment, we have 4% Carly that won’t even work. So anything over 4% is what we need to start adding.
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By traderseye

October 16, 2011
Carly O’Keefe: Welcome back, Heartland Investor David England is in the studio. David of course, is an Associate Professor of Finance at John A. Logan college and also the founder of the website thetraderseye.com. Let’s start out with a question from a viewer. What’s an ETF and are they popular?
David England: ETFs, exchange traded funds. Been around in our market since about 1993 and yes they are very very popular.
Carly O’Keefe: What are they exactly?
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