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...weil sich derzeit 422'000 Leute (vermutlich temporär) aus dem Arbeitsmarkt verabschiedet haben. Diese Sorge wird anscheinend auch vom Treasury geteilt:
Cloud over US payrolls: job hunters take summer off

By David Lawder
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Better-than-expected July jobs numbers have numerous private economists heralding the end of the recession, but the Obama administration is taking a more guarded view because of a worrisome rise in long-term unemployment and a drop in labor force participation.
Friday's jobs report and other recent data "reinforce our view that the U.S. recession ended in June, and we have raised our third-quarter 2009 growth forecast to 3.5 percent," wrote Christian Broda, a Barclays Capital economist in New York.
U.S. employers shed 247,000 jobs in July, far fewer than the 320,000 forecast and the 467,000 eliminated in June. The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent, the Labor Department said.
Stocks rallied on the news, sending the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index .SPX to a 10-month high.
Helping to drive the unemployment rate lower, however, was a decline in the labor force participation rate by 0.2 percentage points to 65 percent. About 422,000 people stopped looking for work.
Meanwhile, the number of long-term unemployed, defined as those jobless for more than six months, rose by 584,000 to a to a record 4.97 million. More than one-third of those counted as unemployed have now been without work for six months, the highest level since the government started keeping these statistics in 1948.
"We believe this drop in joblessness will prove to be temporary. With the summer in full swing, we assume a larger than usual number of unemployed Americans decided to take a break from job hunting," said Bernard Baumohl, president of the Economic Outlook in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. "It's been a horrible labor market, so who could blame them?"
They will likely resume job searching in the autumn, lifting the unemployment rate higher, possibly above 10 percent. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday President Barack Obama believes the rate will top 10 percent.
The U.S. Treasury's top economist said he thought forecasts that growth would resume this year were "plausible" but expressed concern about the long-term unemployed. Alan Krueger, assistant secretary for economic policy, said further actions to help this group may be considered.
"The administration is constantly looking at how to get people back to work, how to lessen the pain of the recession," Krueger told a news briefing.
He declined to provide a forecast on when and where the unemployment rate would peak. (Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
PIMCO: Bull market in U.S. stocks won't last

(Adds detail on S&P, Dow rally and quotes)
NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of bond fund manager Pacific Investment Management Co, said on Friday that U.S. stock markets are on a "prolonged sugar high" and that the bull market is unlikely to last.
"If we are in a bull market in stocks, it is unlikely to last," El-Erian told Reuters as the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI and Standard & Poor's 500 .SPX each gained 1.50 percent. "I think what we are seeing is just a prolonged sugar high for now," he added.
El-Erian helps oversee $850 billion in assets, including equities, at PIMCO.
The Dow gained more than 125 points while the S&P tacked on 15 points late Friday on news that the pace of U.S. job losses slowed more than forecast in July and the unemployment rate dropped for the first time in more than a year.
The S&P is up an astounding 52 percent from an intraday March 6 low of 666.79 to an intraday high Friday of 1,018. The Dow is up 43.5 percent from its closing low on March 9, while the Nasdaq is up 57.8 percent for the same period.
El-Erian said his concern is that stock markets have been turbo-charged by temporary and potentially reversible factors, including Federal Reserve programs and fiscal stimulus. He added that Corporate America has been able to surpass earnings expectations by way of layoffs and cutbacks in capital spending.
"It's too early to call for a sustained and vigorous recovery," El-Erian said. "Given the need to de-lever further, it is not certain which component of private demand will take over from the government as the driver of employment growth."
July payrolls fell by 247,000, after a 443,000 loss in June, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate unexpectedly dropped to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent.
PIMCO believes that several risk assets, including U.S. equities, are overbought relative to the realities of the fundamentals, he added. (Additional reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Dan Grebler)
Es scheint ein durchgehend einheitliches System zu sein, das derzeit sowohl die Börsen, als auch die Wirtschaftsberichterstattung durchdringt: den Wunsch zur Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.
1) Die Börsen werden solange hochgetrieben, bis auch der letzte Skeptiker eingestehen muss, die Finanzkrise ist vorbei – denn sonst würde der DAX ja nicht bei 8.000 Punkten stehen. Aber derartige Phasen, in denen die Börsen keinen Bezug mehr zu Realität hatten, gab es schon des Öfteren. Blasenbildungen sind an den Börsen keine nur seltene Erscheinung.
2) Was aber e r s t m a l s festzustellen ist, ist: dass auch die Wirtschaftsberichterstattung in der Presse sich zunehmend von der ökonomischen Realität entfernt.
Man kann das schon die ganze Zeit über beobachten: sämtliche Wirtschaftsdaten werden nur noch an irgendwelchen „forecasts“ gemessen.
Ökonomisch hat ein solcher Vergleich überhaupt keine Relevanz: da ist alleine von Bedeutung, ob sich ein Wert (etwa das BIP) gegenüber dem Vorjahr verbessert oder verschlechtert hat und nicht gegenüber irgendwelchen „forecasts“, bei welchen der Normalbürger nicht mal weiß wie diese zustande gekommen sind.
Aber dieser nicht enden wollende „forecast“ – Vergleich mag vielleicht als ein intelligenter Griff in die psychologische Trickkiste zu werten sein. Das Wort „besser“ kann auf diese Weise täglich an die Dutzend Male in Umlauf gebracht werden. Und wenn Otto – Normal – Bürger seine Wahrnehmung dann ausschließlich noch auf das Wort „besser“ fokusiert, dann geht das Kalkül der Psycho – Trickser auch voll auf. Das leichtgläubige Volk glaubt dann wirklich, dass die Krise schon wieder zum Guten gewendet worden sei (nach so kurzer Zeit).
Der Höhepunkt einer solchen Entfremdung der Wirtschaftspresse von der ökonomischen Realität stellt für mich ein Artikel aus „Der Welt“ von heute dar:
Das Ende der Rezession rück näher
„Die deutschen Exporte legen wieder zu, die Arbeitslosenzahlen in den USA gehen zurück, das Wachstum in China ist schon wieder so stark wie vor der Krise – kündigt sich da etwa ein globaler Aufschwung an? Pessimisten befürchten ein Strohfeuer durch die weltweit aufgelegten staatlichen Konjunkturprogramme.“
Man muss sich das auf der Zunge zergehen lassen:
„die Arbeitslosenzahlen in den USA gehen zurück“ – war doch heute überall zu lesen, dass die Arbeitslosenzahl um 247.000 im Juli gestiegen war.
Oder: „die deutschen(!) Exporte“ legen wieder zu. Kein Wort darüber, dass es einzig die Exporte in die Golf – Region mit deren gigantischen Bauprojekten - zugenommen haben. Es ist die einzige Exportregion, in der deutsche Unternehmen ein Wachstum gegenüber dem Vorjahr zu verzeichnen hatten. Im Rest der Welt nur Export – Rückgänge (etwa liegen die Lieferungen nach Russland um mehr als 30% unter Vorjahresniveau).
www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article4277354/...0A762D47#vote_4261226
www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/...ie-krise;2440617
Meldung ist vom Feb., aber die Prognosen sind immer noch interessant, da ein Ausblick über die nächsten 3 bis 5 Jahre gegeben wird. In dieser Zeit rechnet RBC Capital mit über 1000 Pleiten meist kleinerer Banken in USA:
Feb 9, 2009, 2:29 p.m. EST
More than 1,000 banks may fail, analyst estimates
RBC's Cassidy sharply raises gloomy view, urges avoiding banking stocks
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- More than 1,000 banks may fail during the next three to five years as the recession intensifies and loan losses climb, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets estimated on Monday.
In 2008, analyst Gerard Cassidy forecast 200 to 300 bank failures, but now he says the environment has deteriorated since then.
"Residential mortgage delinquencies remain at record levels, home-equity loan defaults are steadily rising and residential construction and land loan non-performing assets are skyrocketing for lenders with excess exposure to the weakest housing markets in the U.S.," Cassidy wrote in a note to clients.
"In conjunction with the slowdown in the economy, credit deterioration has accelerated in the commercial and industrial and commercial real estate loan areas," he said.
...Cassidy expects most of the banks that collapse will be relatively small, with less than $2 billion in assets.
...
In his research report, Cassidy bluntly calls on investors to "avoid the bank stocks" during this precarious climate and gloomy outlook hanging over the industry.
"We are nowhere near the end of this down leg in the current credit cycle," Cassidy said. "Bank stocks will likely remain under pressure as the industry confronts its credit problems, de-leverages and raises common equity over the next 12 months."
www.marketwatch.com/story/story/...D9BB-4EBA-AEAE-2E6CEE571BD3
wird langsam grenzkriminell. Das zeigt die zunehmende Differenz zwischen anfangs (zur Marktbeeinflussung) gemeldeten "guten" Zahlen und deren späterer drastischer Abwärtsrevision. (Aus Link von Wawidu.)
Bei den privaten Einkommen (Chart unten) klafft die Schere seit 2007 immer weiter auseinander. Die Zahlenreihe oben zeigt Abwärtsrevisionen in den Monaten von Jan. bis Mai 2009 in Höhe von teils über 3 % (im April und Mai, offenbar als "Rallye-Kerosin").
John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics specializes in removing these questionable tweaks to the government's statistical data to better align current numbers with the methodology used to gather historical data. After reviewing the data, Williams believes that "the June jobs loss likely exceeded 700,000." David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff notes that the fall in the number of hours worked in June (to a record low of 33 per week) is equivalent to a loss of more than 800,000 jobs.
There are similar issues with the way the unemployment rate is measured. The headline rate only jumped from 9.4% to 9.5% because of a drop in the number of people in the workforce. The more inclusive "U-6" measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers, jumped from 16.4% to 16.5%. But even this doesn't adequately capture the situation on the ground: Back in the Clinton Administration, the definition of discouraged worker was changed to only include those that had given up looking for work because there were no jobs to be had within the last year.
blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/...ate-already-at-20.aspx
Im Kampf gegen die Rezession hat US-Finanzminister Timothy Geithner den Kongress zu einer erneuten Anhebung der staatlichen Schuldengrenze aufgefordert. Das derzeitige Limit von 12,1 Billionen Dollar könne schon Anfang bis Mitte Oktober überschritten werden, erklärte Geithner in einem Brief an den demokratischen Mehrheitsführer im Senat, Harry Reid, am Freitag. "Es ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, dass der Kongress handelt, bevor die Grenze erreicht ist, damit die Bürger und die Anleger hier und auf der ganzen Welt weiter darauf vertrauen können, dass die USA immer ihre Verpflichtungen erfüllen werden", schrieb Geithner. Das Finanzministerium wollte sich nicht zu dem Brief äußern.
Zuletzt hatten Regierungsvertreter erklärt, die Staatsschulden könnten die gesetzliche Grenze zwischen Oktober und Dezember erreichen. Die USA hatten die Schuldengrenze erst im Februar angehoben, als der Kongress das Konjunkturprogramm von Präsident Barack Obama über knapp 800 Milliarden Dollar gebilligt hatte.
Quelle: mme/rts
LITTLE TORCH KEY, Fla. — Jack Warner leaned against his home bar and checked his watch before resuming his blank stare at the white tent outside his multimillion-dollar dream house, with its swimming pool and views of the Florida gulf, soon to be sold at auction.
“My whole life happens in two hours,” he said. “I feel like I am playing the part of Old Yeller,“ wondering if he will survive financially or perhaps just be put out of his misery, like the fictional dog. An auction, and having people traipse through a house in previews before bidding, smacks of desperation. But increasingly, people with multimillion-dollar homes who need to raise money are discovering they have few alternatives, as the luxury real estate market is especially moribund.
“We are seeing more people with homes that were on the market for $4 million to $7 million that are not selling and they are calling us,” said Jim Gall, president of Auction Company of America.
Mr. Warner, 61, bought his house and an adjacent property that once had a trailer park on Little Torch Key, north of Key West, in 1993. It was appraised at nearly $14 million just two years ago. But after losing a large amount of money, he liquidated his construction business in Elkhart, Ind. Last year, another company he owned, Lucky’s Landing, which essentially owned his Florida real estate, filed for bankruptcy protection and its assets came under court oversight.
When no buyer emerged at the listing price of $5.9 million, Mr. Warner asked the United States Bankruptcy Court in Miami to approve the property’s sale at auction. He had a lot riding on the request. To avoid personal bankruptcy , he said, the sale had to generate more than $3 million, roughly the remaining amount of the mortgages.
The gavel ultimately came down at $2.5 million. Mr. Warner’s hopes withered as he uttered softly: “O.K., I’m broke.”
Even in the boom years, luxury homes occasionally sold at auction. Perhaps a house had a celebrity background that might drive people to bid up the price, or maybe a savvy marketer saw a way to drum up publicity for a unusual property. Miramar, a Gilded Age estate in Newport, R.I., was commissioned by George D. Widener, a railway magnate who died on the Titanic. It was sold at auction in 2006 for about $18 million after languishing on the market for about three years.
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Henry R. Kravis , the New York financier, prepared his 3,300-acre property near Meeker, Colo., for auction in 2004 after it had been on the market for two years. Just before the auction, though, he struck a $16.5 million deal with Greg Norman , the pro golfer and golf course designer.
As the real estate market began to soften in 2007, a few attempts were made to auction large numbers of high-end properties. For example, Sky Sotheby’s International Realty held an auction of 20 homes with an average value of $3.5 million in Sarasota, Fla. “But that strategy was unusual,” recalled Chad Roffers, then the president of Sky Sotheby’s.
Then the housing market collapsed. Now, owners of trophy homes have to decide whether to take the plunge, and in some cases they are being pushed by creditors or the courts.
”We have been getting calls from Aspen, Palm Beach and the Hamptons and California,” said Alan Kravets, president of Sheldon Good & Company, an auction firm. “Last year, we sold a number of homes in the $2 million to $5 million range for Americans who had listed them and not been able to sell them.”
Stacy Kirk, who together with her mother co-founded Grand Estates Auction Company in 1999 to handle multimillion-dollar homes exclusively, said her business had grown to 30 homes last year, from 20 homes sold in 2005. “We have been receiving more inquiries from homeowners in the $1.5 million and up price range,” she said. “And we are talking to banks for the first time about whether we can help sell similarly priced homes that are headed for foreclosure.”
To help drum up interest, some auctioneers use the term “absolute” auction, meaning there is no minimum price and the seller agrees to accept the highest bid, no matter how low.
Mr. Gall, of Auction Company of America, used that technique for Mr. Warner’s property in Little Torch Key. Just 12 bidders produced cashier’s checks of $100,000 to get into the auction, where the mood was muted at best.
The day before the auction of the property, Mr. Gall auctioned off the contents, including artwork, furnishings and tools, for about $47,000.
Auction companies stand to make a healthy fee. At Little Torch Key, the buyer paid the firm an additional $250,000, or 10 percent more than the auction price. A real estate agent who has had a property listed for some length of time may get a cut as well.
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When Grand Estates sold a Nantucket home at auction in July, the price was $5.2 million, slightly less than the $5.4 million paid in 2004 by the owner, Paul C. Steinfurth, a real estate executive who lives in Miami. The proceeds covered his $3 million mortgage and the 6 percent cut, or $312,000, that went to the auction house.
Ms. Kirk, who heads Grand Estates, said that she used an absolute auction because “there are so many properties out there and to get the most number of buyers there, you need to sell absolute.”
William Bone, president of the National Auction Group in Gadsden, Ala., said that his company primarily handled absolute auctions because they ensured that a sale would take place.
But some experts are skeptical about absolute auctions. Jim Randel, author of “The Skinny on Real Estate Investing,” said that auction companies might “protect themselves with a straw man,” he said. “Essentially, a phony bidder could step in and bid to ensure a minimum price and the house could revert back to the owner.”
Mr. Bone dismissed such suggestions, saying “if somebody does that, we don’t get a commission.”
Though Sotheby’s International Realty does not do auctions, it has had relationships with companies that do.
This year it struck an agreement with Concierge Auctions, a two-year-old company. In July, Concierge auctioned four Florida properties, including an eight-bedroom waterfront home in Ponte Vedra Beach that had been on the market for two years for $5.9 million. The sale price has not been disclosed.
Laura Brady, Concierge’s president, said that her strategy was to take on only a handful of expensive homes.
“But the motivation and the expectation has to be managed well,” said Michael R. Good, Sotheby’s president. “We are not in the business of trying to under-deliver.”
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