I love the premise of this article. People are dropping out of the workforce to trade crypto currencies. Sounds just like what happened before the stock market crash of 1999-2000. Everyone is now a genius and can predict the movement of crypto.
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<header class="caas-title-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[h=1]Cryptocurrency trading is stopping people from looking for full-time jobs: CareerBuilder CEO[/h]</header></header>[FONT="] Julie Hyman·Anchor
<time class="" datetime="2021-06-08T15:21:04.000Z">Tue, June 8, 2021, 11:21 AM</time>
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[FONT="]The 559,000 jobs the U.S. added in May continue to puzzle economists, who predicted 675,000 additions for the month and 1 million additions a month earlier as the economy recovers. They've put forth explanations from lack of child care to persistent COVID-related safety concerns. Now, another culprit can be added to the list: Some potential workers are instead staying home trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
"They're pulling back on the hours they're looking to work based on what's happening in the crypto market," Irina Novoselsky, CEO of job site CareerBuilder, told Yahoo Finance Live. "They're making side money and no longer looking to fill full-time hours."
Most cryptocurrencies are well off their highs this year. Bitcoin (BTC-USD), the best-known, hit a record of nearly $64,000 in mid-April before trading in recent days closer to $35,000. That said, it's still up more than 20% this year. And participation in the asset class is growing, with a recent report finding 21.2 million Americans — 14% of the adult population — own cryptocurrencies.
Of course, crypto trading — or stock trading, for that matter — isn't the only factor keeping workers at home. Novoselsky also cited the fact that many schools are still not back to full-time, in-person status, as well as the idea that some people are hanging on to their current jobs while they make plans to move cities, for example.
Then there are the Americans who have decided they're never going back to work.
"There's a whole generation that has left the workforce early. Pre-COVID, we had a five-generation workforce, and we're seeing one of the generations close to retirement saying, 'I'm just not going to participate,'" Novoselsky said.
Demand for employees has sent job postings on CareerBuilder to an all-time
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<header class="caas-title-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding-bottom: 10px;">[h=1]Cryptocurrency trading is stopping people from looking for full-time jobs: CareerBuilder CEO[/h]</header></header>[FONT="] Julie Hyman·Anchor
<time class="" datetime="2021-06-08T15:21:04.000Z">Tue, June 8, 2021, 11:21 AM</time>
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[FONT="]The 559,000 jobs the U.S. added in May continue to puzzle economists, who predicted 675,000 additions for the month and 1 million additions a month earlier as the economy recovers. They've put forth explanations from lack of child care to persistent COVID-related safety concerns. Now, another culprit can be added to the list: Some potential workers are instead staying home trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
"They're pulling back on the hours they're looking to work based on what's happening in the crypto market," Irina Novoselsky, CEO of job site CareerBuilder, told Yahoo Finance Live. "They're making side money and no longer looking to fill full-time hours."
Most cryptocurrencies are well off their highs this year. Bitcoin (BTC-USD), the best-known, hit a record of nearly $64,000 in mid-April before trading in recent days closer to $35,000. That said, it's still up more than 20% this year. And participation in the asset class is growing, with a recent report finding 21.2 million Americans — 14% of the adult population — own cryptocurrencies.
Of course, crypto trading — or stock trading, for that matter — isn't the only factor keeping workers at home. Novoselsky also cited the fact that many schools are still not back to full-time, in-person status, as well as the idea that some people are hanging on to their current jobs while they make plans to move cities, for example.
Then there are the Americans who have decided they're never going back to work.
"There's a whole generation that has left the workforce early. Pre-COVID, we had a five-generation workforce, and we're seeing one of the generations close to retirement saying, 'I'm just not going to participate,'" Novoselsky said.
Demand for employees has sent job postings on CareerBuilder to an all-time
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