Fed’s Evans: Natural U.S. jobless rate may be under 5%

MarketWatch ^ | 5-20-2015 | Todd Buell, WSJ

[Saltmeat]

Why doesn’t someone do a poll and determine what the real unemployment rate is? How is it that they can do a political poll and predict with accuracy the outcome of an election, but can’t use the same processes to determine the real rate of unemployment?

Just pick a number of representative households and poll the to see who is employed, underemployed or no longer looking for employment. Why won’t this work?

This would take the lying government bureaucrats out ot the picture.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

The reason we don’t have inflation after 5 years of massive printing is because we are in a deflationary depression. By now we should by all rights have hyper inflation.
We will. It always starts as deflationary. Prices are already rising now.

[Pollster1]

The natural jobless rate under Obamacare is far higher than with individual freedom. We didn’t have to lose so many jobs - that was a choice made by democrats.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“How did you come up with 33.9 percent?”

I failed Math 105 in college and had to take it over? :-)

I didn’t think that figure looked right but I just ran it again and came up with another bad figure. I think the calculator is messed up. Its about 15 years old.

Anyway the government must know that we can all quickly figure out the 5% is a total lie.

[RipSawyer]

Apparently some cannot figure it out or won’t admit that they can. I didn’t believe five percent when it was being reported under George W. Bush and I know things were better then than now.

[Organic Panic]

If you consider collecting welfare, disability, or living in mom’s basement as jobs then yes, many people become instantly employed.