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To: Perdogg
Here is the key paragraph I picked up from another news article.

The report showed that the actual amount of Americans working dropped by 195,000, with the net job gain resulting primarily from seasonal adjustments. The birth-death model, which approximates net job growth from newly added or closed businesses, added 52,000 to the total.

so basically Seasonal Adjustments and Birth-Death Adjustments is everything. The raw numbers are 195k fewer workers.

43 posted on 08/03/2012 6:03:57 AM PDT by oldbrowser (As long as Obama's records are sealed, any discussion of Romney's past is off limits.)
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To: oldbrowser
The news is saying the markets are reacting positively to the good news but the truth is that the markets are reacting positively because the news is bad and that means that the Fed may have to stimulate the market once more and that is short term positive for the stocks.
50 posted on 08/03/2012 6:06:54 AM PDT by oldbrowser (As long as Obama's records are sealed, any discussion of Romney's past is off limits.)
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