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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on February 05, 2010, 08:11:33 AM
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Feb-05-10 08:18 AM
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Ok, CNN, we get it. You are now the Tea Party network.
Good grief, how many stories on this ridiculous group of misguided ignorant hateful Americans do you have to air?
And be sure and leave out that the 'movement' is full of racist assholes who don't understand the constitution they love to cite.
Showing Alan Keyes proves they aren't racist! We get it already. How about letting your viewers know how many other African Americans are tea party members?
Crickets.
Yep CNN is proving just how librul they are. :rofl:
Island is once again boring. All they are talking about is that unemployment dropped to 9.7%. Like sharks circling a dead seal.
http://www.democraticunderground.com//discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7645039
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Does anyone really think unemployment dropped? They sure like playing games with the numbers. I think its at least 16% right now.
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Does anyone really think unemployment dropped? They sure like playing games with the numbers. I think its at least 16% right now.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Payrolls unexpectedly fell in January, but the unemployment rate surprisingly dropped to a five-month low, according to a government report on Friday that hinted at labor market improvement.
The Labor Department said the economy shed 20,000 jobs after losing 150,000 jobs in December. November was revised to a gain of 64,000, up from 4,000. Annual benchmark revisions to payrolls data showed the economy has purged 8.4 million jobs since the start of the recession in December 2007.
Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast payrolls gaining 5,000 and the unemployment rate to edge up to 10.1 percent in January from 10 percent. Median estimates from the top 20 forecasters expected payrolls to be unchanged last month.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobless-rate-falls-to-97-rb-514835788.html?x=0
Someone explain how an expected gain of 5000 and a blip of .1 percentage point translates into a loss of 20,000 and a loss of .3 percentage points.
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All of those people losing their unemployment benefits no longer get counted as unemployed?
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Someone explain how an expected gain of 5000 and a blip of .1 percentage point translates into a loss of 20,000 and a loss of .3 percentage points.
I think that happens because when polling for unemployment figures, they count only those "looking for work," and omit those who've given up looking for work.
After a year of the 0bamareich, it's possible the number of those discouraged are starting to exceed the number of those actively looking.
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I think that happens because when polling for unemployment figures, they count only those "looking for work," and omit those who've given up looking for work.
After a year of the 0bamareich, it's possible the number of those discouraged are starting to exceed the number of those actively looking.
I gather but still think the numbers are being fudged.
By this rate then in 2012 we will have more people employed then we have for a population.
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All of those people losing their unemployment benefits no longer get counted as unemployed?
You hit the nail on the head.
The "drop" is due to people who have had their benefits stop, OR have simply given up and stopped looking for work.
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Anyone else notice how the primitives never cite the "Real" unemployment numbers anymore, as they did under Bush ?
Anyway - the U6 figure they used to love on the island is now something like 16.5%
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Feb-05-10 08:18 AM
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Ok, CNN, we get it. You are now the raving moonbat network.
Good grief, how many stories on this ridiculous group of misguided ignorant hateful Americans do you have to air?
And be sure and leave out that the 'movement' is full of racist assholes who don't understand the constitution they love to cite.
Showing Harry Belafonte proves they aren't racist! We get it already. How about letting your viewers know how many other African Americans are raving moonbat party members?
Crickets.
Yep CNN is proving just how librul they are.
Fixed for accuracy.
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The January numbers involve some annual resets and adjustments, they can't be taken as completely continuous from the previous 12 months but have to be taken apart by people a lot more sophisticated than me before their real economic meaning emerges. From what I'm reading there are both problems and a few good future indicators buried in the statistical mire, but an awful lot depends on how businesses see the coming (And presently uncertain) tax, regulatory, banking, and monetary policy environment before any of the good indicators translate into hiring.
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Every administration has taken liberties with UE numbers. Obama however has taken it to new heights (or lows).