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Something Has Snapped: Unexplained 2.3 Million Jobs Gap Emerges In Broken Payrolls Report A simplistic, superficial take of today’s jobs report would conclude that the red hot jump in nonfarm payrolls indicates a “strong hiring market” (just ignore the jump in the unemployment rate). Nothing could be further from the truth. Recall that back in August and September, we showed that a stark divergence had opened between the Household and Establishment surveys that comprise the monthly jobs report, and since March the former has been stagnant while the latter has been rising every single month. In addition to that, full-time...

Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data to make the unemployment rate "look smaller than it actually was." "What you should really look at is the number of jobs created," Mulvaney said on "State of the Union." "We've thought for a long time, I did, that the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers, in terms of the number of people in the workforce, to make the unemployment rate -- that percentage rate -- look smaller than it actually was."

You, I and the other taxpaying citizens are spending millions of dollars looking for a crew of yuppies who knowingly put themselves in peril by climbing Mt HoodMeanwhile an elderly couple died in a North Carolina swamp because no one could be bothered to search for them.The family of the missing elderly had to hire private helicopters.The US military (That you and I fellow suckers) are sending out search planes and 'Unmanned' drones.I'm sure if those people who died in the swamp were Harvard professors or were a Gay married couple from Massachusetts, we'd be sending up another space shuttle...