[kingu]

How does it fall? You lop off five plus days of unemployment numbers from California who wasn't accepting any new jobless claims from July 26th - July 30th, and then have phone issues on July 31st which knocked out the automated unemployment claims phone system.

And next week, there will be unexpected growth in new unemployment claims. But the headline rate won't have to be adjusted until the end of August, with the hope that holiday hires start by then, giving the expected 7.5% unemployment rate.

[GeronL]

You just keep manipulating the numbers until they say what you want them to say.