Posted on 09/29/2016 6:41:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week but the number of applications remained low, the latest sign that layoffs are scarce. […]
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for jobless aid rose 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 254,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, ticked down to 256,000, matching a 43-year low first reached in April. […]
The economy is expanding, though at a sluggish pace, growing just 1.4 percent in the April-June quarter, according to a separate government report Thursday. …
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We live in an age of lies. In any most any other time, the party responsible for 8 years of economic malaise would be punished at the ballot box.
Given the reality of one-party rule, how does one do that now?
http://bea.gov/newsreleases/national/GDP/GDPnewsrelease.htm
and no one is celebrating 1.4% GDP?
a $616B deficit gets us this? Prepare accordingly.
....and when Trump takes office, the economic reports will be all doom and gloom.
Because it would then be a good time to buy.
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