When it the U.S. labor market going to be functional again?

CEO of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), Mohamed El-Erian, thinks the last decade is a “lost decade” of unemployment for the labor market in the U.S., as outlined by Bloomberg. There is also an additional flaw El-Erian pointed out. That is that the economy in the country generally moves forward without any looking back at what has happened. There are a lot of individuals who need loans. Unfortunately, the credit market can’t allow for the loans to all be given. He thinks a “new normal” in America is getting set in.

Nevertheless a lot of problems with unemployment and labor in U.S.

Unemployment remains at a high level, credit markets are on their guard and additional federal stimulus isn’t really likely to solve the issues plaguing the nation’s labor market, said El-Erian. Charles Nenner of the Charles Nenner Research Center is even more pessimistic. El-Erian thinks the economy is not that flexible while Bloomberg Television’s “On the Move” showed Nenner thinking the Dow Jones will go down to 5,000 in two years. Playing with interest rates and holding hands out for an instant money bailout aren’t necessarily the best springboards to long-term recovery. People and institutions that look for pay day without understanding the long-term impact of borrowing from the future to prop up the present are doomed to fall from the trapeze and strike bottom.

El-Erian said “This country has very weak safety nets” on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” “It is built on the assumption that our labor markets are very flexible, that if you lose your job in California you move somewhere else, you get another job, and what we’re seeing is structural unemployment.”

Getting some high quality assets

High quality assets are bought by Pimco right now. In the U.S., the company’s Total Return Fund is the largest of its kind with the 11.8 return within the last year which is beating 67 percent of peer bongs, say Bloomberg. But for the country as a whole, a more dramatic focus on structure is needed, says El-Erian. Between the stimulus and also the U.S. housing market, the recovery seems quite far away. The U.S. economy needs to restructure the way business is done. “It needs other agencies to help and in specific, it needs structural policies to be there,” El-Erian informed Bloomberg. “Put another way, you need to stimulate not just demand, but also you need to make supply more flexible.”

You will find numerous dreams and wild speculations occurring with IOUs. El-Erian’s idea of a “new normal” could just help the economy snap back.

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Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/el-erian-sees-lost-decade-for-u-s-jobs-amid-weak-safety-nets-tom-keene.html

PIMPCO

europe.pimco.com/LeftNav/AboutPIMCO/Milestones.htm

Understanding the “new normal”

youtube.com/watch?v=t8oyYYBJGX4