American workers quitting at fastest pace in 16 years

Basically, it’s become more of a worker’s market for many employees.

Forget about watching the unemployment rate or the pace of job growth.

"I quit" will be the employment phrase to watch in a year when, curiously, the man who popularized "You’re fired" became president.

Plenty of consumer confidence polls and scores of retailing data points help us gauge the psyche of America’s shoppers. But no one statistic speaks better to our overall sense of financial security than the lightly discussed government tally of the folks who voluntarily left their jobs.

By JONATHAN LANSNER, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER COLUMNIST |

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