Posted on 04/14/2011 6:02:46 AM PDT by John.Galt2012
New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, bouncing back above the key 400,000 level, while core producer prices climbed faster than expected in March, government reports showed on Thursday.
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Rush is going to have fun with this one...
How can this be? BOR said last night the economy is getting better.
“How unexpected!!! “
Any deviation of facts from their world view is always unexpected to the left. They are so mired in their socialist dogma, and so pathetically convinced of their own intellectual superiority that they are blind to reality. They either ignore reality, make excuses for it, or are surprised by it. Sad.
Without reading the article, once again I bet that last weeks numbers were revised upward to make this rise look smaller.
Its a familiar tactic they have been using for a while now.
If these oil prices stay high and interest rates start to climb, God help us.
at this point the American people have zero faith in any economic numbers coming out of this government
Surprise my......They just couldn’t figure out a way of hiding it.
If there is one thing that is predictible about this administration besides the lies, it is that un-employment will be a mess and only get worse. They try to cook the books. with or without cooked books we never know the real un-employment numbers because they only count the people drawing un-employment checks. When the benefits expire, guess what? That person is no longer un-employed.
The trickle down effect of higher gas prices.
*DRINK*
You are correct. Sixteen of the last eighteen weeks there have been upward revisions, usually in the 2000 to 3000 range. If you wanted to play the odds, its a good bet that new jobless claims were closer to 414,000 this week.
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