[dools0007world]

9.8% unemployment my butt. It is well into the teens. Is there anybody out there who has had the patience and knowledge to actually track these numbers. I tried, but the baselines keep changing so I gave up. Perhaps the best thing to do is go back to the unemployment baselines that were in effect during W’s tenure.

Anybody have any suggestions?

[mandaladon]

The left solution

Extend unemployme­nt till 2019 and raise taxes.

[PatriotGirl827]

There's a poster on Market Watch called “TKWallace” who does an excellent breakdown of the numbers every week. He gets the data from the BLS reports. It's worth checking out what he has posted today (and in the past), because he confirms that the actual numbers are WAY worse than this.

http://www.marketwatch.com/Community/TKWallace

[CowboyJay]

I wouldn't believe much that comes out of the gov't as far as indexes that get wide use or reporting. CPI & UE stats are/have been fiddled with considerably.

I've found by ignoring CPI, and indexing markets to gold everything starts to make alot more sense, for instance.

Maybe using employment numbers rather than unemployment numbers might clear things up a bit. Unsure if these numbers include estimates for the illegal immigrant population.

CPS bulk employment data