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The Hot New Theory About What Happened To The US Economy (Everything Is Okay Now)
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| 10-8-2011
| Joe Weisenthal
Posted on 10/08/2011 5:13:45 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Mail volume increased 3%. Changes of as little as .1% are SERIOUS ~
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:14:42 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: blam
IMHO....there’s some truth to this. There are still Americans that can get by, make a buck and have a close enough to good life DESPITE the idiots in Washington that our economy is limping along. We are barely out of the last recession, but things are probably not going to crash and burn. That is NOT to say we are doing well, or that 4 more years of the big 0 won’t be enough to send us over the cliff. The best analogy I can come up with is from a Monty Python movie, where our economy is the guy yelling “I’m not quite dead yet”...and Barry is the son trying to toss us on the wagon.
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:17:59 AM PDT
by
jdsteel
(Cain vs. Not Able.......now that Sarah's out.)
To: PowderMonkey
"LOL! Ive seen people routinely eviscerated at staff meetings for using hollow and meaningless descriptors like growing, HOT, fine and check in their management briefings." Yup. I once had an engineer describe to me something being 'dead-nuts-on'. I couldn't help myself, I laughed out loud. (A good engineer always has a number, +-)
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:23:31 AM PDT
by
blam
((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
To: Lazamataz
I was about to say That's nothing but Yak Squeeze! until I got to "in accordance with ISO-9001:2008 standards".
Well...ok, then. That's more like it. Good to finally hear some straight talk!
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:24:31 AM PDT
by
GBA
(The Constitution and conservatism must win in 2012!)
To: Lazamataz
ISO ~ my eyes glaze over.
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:25:45 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Perdogg
I have never heard of returning striking workers being added to the employment numbers to fluff it. Is this something new?
The BLS collects two sets of data:
.one from individuals -
the Household Survey; .one from employers -
the Payroll Survey or Establishment Data
The data from the Household Survey is generally considered more accurate and is used to get the unemployment rate. It counts the number of people working. The establishment data counts the number of jobs, not people working; one person can hold multiple jobs.
The introduction to the BLS monthly
empsit (Employment Situation Summary) mixes data from both sources.
The 45,000 striking workers are reflected in the Establishment data which reports +103,000 payroll jobs.
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:27:01 AM PDT
by
algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:32:36 AM PDT
by
blam
((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
To: blam
NEVERMIND!
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:35:33 AM PDT
by
texas_mrs
(Heartless Conservative & Native Texan)
To: blam
Place: North Atlantic.
Year: 1912
Date: April 15
Time: Ten minutes after striking an iceberg.
First Mate: "Captain, I have good news and bad news."
Captain: "What's the bad news?"
First Mate: "We struck an iceberg."
Captain: "The good news?"
First Mate: "We're still afloat."
To: hemogoblin
Oh dear Lord. “Low hanging fruit” is the current buzz phrase in my office. You’d think I we all worked in an orchard.
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posted on
10/08/2011 6:49:38 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(46 55 42 4f)
To: blam
It’s not that there is a shortage of jobs, it’s more like there are too many people.
We need a program to reduce the number of people so that it matches the number of jobs. (/libtard think)
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posted on
10/08/2011 7:04:36 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
To: Lazamataz
LOL! May I use that beautiful multi-syllabic monstrosity in my next memo?
One of the small pleasures I allow myself at work is to edit out all the cheerleading pom-pom waving boilerplate and b/s that infest the management memos which cascade into my office email every day.
The length of any given memo is usually reduced by 40-50 pct.
To: blam
The calm before the storm.
A very big storm.
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posted on
10/08/2011 7:34:54 AM PDT
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom.)
To: exit82
"The calm before the storm.""A very big storm."
Yup...that's what many are saying.
Now, many are saying that were are already in a recovery and that things will be fine.
How can these opinions be so far apart?
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:36:36 AM PDT
by
blam
((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
To: blam
How can these opinions be so far apart?Because one is the truth, and one is wishful thinking.
The economic fundamentals have not changed, either here or in Europe.
The dollar bubble and the government debt bubble are going to pop. And when they do, and the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency and no one wants to buy our Treasuries, we are screwed.
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:48:30 AM PDT
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom.)
To: blam
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posted on
10/08/2011 10:48:54 AM PDT
by
blam
((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
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