[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

And here is another primer for you, so that you can understand how they deliberately intertwine all of these numbers to create the lie they want for that week:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=215637

Or you can just pretend that the numbers are all legit and the apples are correctly divided from the oranges.

If so, then you believe that unemployment rate the Statists concocted just before the 2012 presidential election.

[1rudeboy]

No one is pretending the number (initial claims, to be specific) is legit. Funny, that's the reaction I always get when I point out someone is wrong.

Just because a number is illegitimate doesn't mean that you are allowed to fail to understand what comprises it.

So, instead of a primer, let's review: the initial claims number does not include people whose unemployment compensation has expired or people moving from unemployment compensation to disability, as you falsely stated.

Maybe you were thinking about the continuing claims number, but I doubt that also because later you (incorrectly) implied that the labor force participation rate takes into account unemployment compensation as well. It does not.

You'd have a far better success rate at convincing people that the government is cooking the books if you understood how it does so. Reading Denninger (see below) is only a start. It is not your final destination.

"You are talking about apples and oranges while they are expanding the State, and that is what I am talking about." No, you were not. Really.