Posted on 01/14/2010 6:41:04 AM PST by Nickname
WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week as jobs remain scarce amid a sluggish economic recovery.
The Labor Department said Thursday new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 444,000. Wall Street economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected an increase of only 3,000.
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LOL. Three threads within two minutes....
Unexpectedly.....again. Who are these people?
Thanks!
I’m going to go check and see how they did if the threads are still there. I (unexpectedly) messed up the source info but a kindly mod has fixed it. :)
They’re the “smart” people. The kind who think Sarah Palin’s dumb.
Cloward-Piven is working as expected.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
I know of many companies that will be laying off hundreds of people over the next several weeks.
Unexpected / unanticipated BUMP !!!!
Those three are posted in sucession, but the two others are locked and replies directed to this one.
Two over worked phrases for this administration:1.) Worse than expected and 2.) Unprecedented. Every thing the idiot in chief does is "unprecedented".
Priority: Pass this on after watching
Let’s show who and what real America is. Elect Lt. Col West.
Priority: Get Scott Brown elected to the US Senate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0
Please watch and forward to your email list and ask them to forward the link to their email lists.
Jobless claim rise - “unexpected” by libs, expected by us
World temp fall - “unexpected” by libs, expected by us
Muslim idiots in the air - “unexpected” by libs, expected by us
Go to Victor Davis Hanson’s excellent essay - reference the part about “Ivy League” degrees being worth just about as much as an Obama promise.
QED.
Yes, it is about time that the punditry sharply revise their expectations downward for Obama's policies. Every week we are treated to unemployment numbers that are "worse than expected." Maybe it's time to scrap Obama's recovery model? Just spitballin' here...
and they were only off by 267%
That's an excellent point.
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