Leading indicators of unemployment rate provide little hope

The indicators that provide some steer of where the unemployment rate is heading over the next few months supply little evidence that it will dip below 8%. What’s more, we doubt that GDP growth will be strong enough next year to drive the unemployment rate as low as the Fed hopes.

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