USA höjer räntan. Amerikanska folket stora vinnarna med Trumps politik.

The labor force surged by 806,000, the biggest move since September 2003, and now sits just below 162 million.
Those counted outside the labor force declined by 653,00, though they still number 95 million.
The participation trend could be indicative that wages actually are coming up enough to encourage sidelined workers.

United States Labor Force Participation Rate 1950-2018 | Data | Chart
Labor Force Participation Rate in the United States decreased to 62.70 percent in August from 62.90 percent in July of 2018. Labor Force Participation Rate in the United States averaged 62.99 percent from 1950 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 67.30 percent in January of 2000 and a record low of 58.10 percent in December of 1954.

The United States leads the annual World Economic Forum’s study of global rankings for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

Under the new framework for competitiveness, released Tuesday, the U.S. achieved the closest to the “competitiveness frontier,” or “ideal state,” with a score of 85.6. Singapore (83.5), Germany (82.8), Switzerland (82.6) and Japan (82.5) rounded out the top five in the rankings, which assessed 140 countries.

The report also notes the United States’ vulnerabilities, including a weakening social fabric and a debilitating security situation, due to the nation’s homicide rate, which is five times the advanced economies’ average. American weaknesses include checks and balances, judicial independence and corruption. The U.S. lags behind most advanced economies on the health pillar, with healthy life expectancy three years below the average, at 67.6 years. The U.S. trails South Korea by a full 20 points on ICT adoption regarding mobile-broadband subscriptions and internet users.

Americans' evaluations of current U.S. economic conditions and the economy's trajectory have not been more upbeat since 2000. Currently, 54% of Americans rate economic conditions as "excellent" or "good," and just 12% as "poor." Also, by 57% to 34%, more Americans say the economy is getting better than say it is getting worse.

The combination of those answers results in a Gallup Economic Confidence Index of +33. The index was last at that level in January 2004, and has not been higher since November 2000 (+39), at the tail end of the dot-com boom.

The Oct. 1-10 poll finds similarly positive ratings of the U.S. job market. Sixty-eight percent of U.S. adults say it is a good time to find a quality job, tying July's measure as the highest in Gallup's trend dating back to August 2001. The quality job trend has been asked each month since October 2001. Not until January 2007 did a majority of Americans rate the job market positively on this measure. In September 2017, perceptions that it was a good time to find a quality job surpassed 60% for the first time, and that figure has been at 62% or higher since February.