“Unexpectedly”
The term of choice for MSM spinners.
The economy is a dead man walking.
Take a drink.
Of course it is “Unexpectedly”, this is the “hope and change” administration and they always predict and hope that these things will change for the better under their “enlightened” rule. The rest of us are left to hope that the change is the total collapse and outlawing of the Nazi democrat party in this country.
Not the case for MSM.
Unless the fraud is so blatently outlandish and intentional, i.e. Dan Rather.
Then you can get hired at Wayne's World cable outfits.
There are so many ‘fudge factors’ to account for seasonal work that the current number is very suspect. It’s as bad as the Global Warming computer models.
My thought exactly. The "experts" sure are stymied these days.
shouldn’t be unexpected. they were christmas season hires. the first wave will be let go, because sales and consumer confidence is low. they’ll keep some through gift return times ‘til about mid-january.
lots of the so-called decline in jobless claims was due to the seasonal hiring that begins about late october.
this has always been standard stuff. i wonder why the lamestream is forgetting it this non-bush year?
The final point is this: half a million jobless claims were filed. this contrasts with the so-called claim of only 7000 lost jobs and last week’s 10.0 unemployment numbers.
They discount most of the new claims somehow as part of the “standard workforce turnover.” There probably is such a thing as workforce turnover. How would you differentiate a chronic turnover, though, that wasn’t just standard turnover.
I’d suggest that you look at a combination of long-term chronic high unemployment rate + underemployment rate + stopped searching rate.
Oh yes we’ve been completely blindsided by this news.
Unexpected means that they were wrong (or lying) about their predictions. So far, they have been wrong about 47 weeks in a row.
The Christmas ‘seasonal’ workers were hired for a whole 2 weeks!