The unemployment rate rose to 9.7% with about 216,000 more jobs lost during August.  However, the actual rate is even worse when one accounts for those who have given up looking for a position and those who are working part time, but want full time employment.  That rate is 16.8%! “The tally now stands at [...]

Here is a link to a very interesting chart listing all of the US bailouts and their cost in current dollars.  http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
 Michael

The nation’s most recent unemployment numbers are out and they are very bad.  “The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.  Both figures were worse than analysts expected…”  Here is a link on the sad job news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy
Dow stands [...]

There has been a refrain sung by the cheerleaders (the same ones who are telling people not to sell their stock…) that while some areas of the markets are declining (a gross understatement) that others will rise, like the lower end of the retail market.  News today that Target’s profits fell 41%.
“MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target [...]

Back by popular demand, here are some recent statistics on your usage of the blog and the firm’s web site. I always like to note that this information is not totally accurate as it will likely contain “visits” from some spam machine in the sky, searching for live e-mail addresses. But, we can [...]

Briefly, a fresh check of the statistical counters on the blog reveal that April was an all time high for visits, at 1,592 and similarly, the number of hits was also at a high point at 11,139 for the month. These numbers are in line with the increasing trend for the last several months. [...]

Well, the long awaited statistics for blog usage are here — and without further ado, here they are:
March was our best month ever for visitors and pages viewed here at www.texaslawyerblog.com [which can also be reached at http://www.texasbankruptcyblog.com just FYI...].
March: 9,393 hits from 1,329 visitors. OK OK that is not different [...]

Back to the occasional statistical review for the blog:
Last month, we had 851 visits to the blog, with 8,644 hits. Wednesdays are the busiest day for visits, with the other business days of the week being about even with each other and the weekends are, as expected, less than that. Ten and eleven a.m. [...]

Here are some recent usage stat’s on the blog:
August recorded our highest usage since we began the blog in February. Although we have been trending up in usage, August’s number of separate visitors was double the month before — with 712 separate visitors, 8,525 hits.
We have had hits from 24 countries — [...]