[expat_panama]

The website has this graph showing participation rate problems w/ current policies, but imho the BLS numbers speak for themselves:

 

[kimtom]

He is celebrating his success, lowering our standard of living!!!

[sarc]

[caver]

Obama thinks we are all stupid. He is right for about half the population though.

[expat_panama]

Good morning --it's only Tuesday and we're already officially in a correction!  Add to that the stock index futures have us in for another -1.35% even while metals are seen +2.47%  --gold/silver continue their trajectory to $1,189.30/$15.38.

Wholesale Inventories get reported today just after opening and who needs the pundit pages when we got these threads:

• Low gas prices signal economic downturn elsewhere
• Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here
• The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness
• Texans For Fiscal Responsibility Endorses Ted Cruz
• Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says (not satire)
• Steve Forbes on Donald Trump and His 'Hoo-Ha'

[depressed in 06]

More evidence, Obummer is the worst Pres__ent.

[griswold3]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-jobs-bls-says-665000-job-losses/article/2582535
A new Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that there were 665,000 jobs lost in January, before accounting for the seasonal adjustment.

The ‘Progressives’ don’t even read their own reports!!!

[Timocrat]

Now that people are taking a lot more interest in the Workforce Participation Rate, I'm not sure they aren't fiddling those numbers as well. Nobody in their right mind pays any attention to the U-3 rate anymore. SGS has the right numbers Here

The seasonally adjusted WPR is Here

The unadjusted rate is Here

The 12 month adjusted graph shows the WPR increasing, while the unadjusted rate shows it decreasing in the last two months.