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New US weekly jobless claims make surprise jump ("..strengthening of the labor market is a myth..")
AFP on Yahoo ^
| 5/20/10
| AFP
Posted on 05/20/2010 9:14:23 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
DEPRESSION... the first step in recovery is to admit it.
LLS
To: AFPhys
Nice chart. It illustrates how “surprising” it is that after bouncing around between 450k and 500k per week, the newest number for weekly unemployment claims would come in at an “unexpected” 470k, dead center for the past 30 weeks of reports.
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posted on
05/20/2010 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: AFPhys
This keeps up...we’ll be so smashed we won’t remember the Obama years. Hmmm, maybe not a bad thing :)
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posted on
05/20/2010 9:49:44 AM PDT
by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
To: NormsRevenge
So does this mean the unemployment rate will be going down as before? /s
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posted on
05/20/2010 9:51:12 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: AFPhys
The sad thing: Given the DOL's propensity to lie through statistical adjustments (seasonal adjustments), phony premises (the "birth-death model"), exclusion (given up, under employed) poor sampling techniques, etc. -- we really don't have any idea how bad the economy is.
It is safe to say, it's a lot worse than the SOB's let on. But how much worse is anyone's guess.
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posted on
05/20/2010 9:57:59 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
(The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving America from WTF to SNAFU to FUBAR)
To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
I think it’s a plot by the alcoholic beverage industries ...
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posted on
05/20/2010 10:15:48 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
To: Tax-chick
Hey, at least we’ll keep THEM employed :)
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posted on
05/20/2010 10:16:35 AM PDT
by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
To: Hoosier Catholic Momma
Make sure you’re drinking domestic product ;-).
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posted on
05/20/2010 10:17:59 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
To: Tax-chick
Doesn’t get more domestic than local Arkansas wineries! :P
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posted on
05/20/2010 10:20:42 AM PDT
by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
To: NormsRevenge
WOW!! How Unexpectedly Unexpected!!!!
NOT...
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posted on
05/20/2010 10:43:16 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
To: NormsRevenge
"The strengthening of the labor market is a myth, or at least that is what the latest piece of data from the Department of Labor would suggest," Rosen said.I guess last week's rise in unemployment wasn't enough to figure this out.
We live in a false front country right now. Believe nothing of interpretation or 'analysis' and little else. Believe no government releases, ever.
To: NormsRevenge
When do the Census temps get the axe?
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:00:19 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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