Comments on: UPDATED: Tiny Employment Uptick (& Tricky Statistics) https://barelyablog.com/tiny-employment-uptick/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/tiny-employment-uptick/comment-page-1/#comment-21572 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:53:29 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=46241#comment-21572 Tricky statistics is right. They’ve changed the way of counting and even so they cook the books still. It seems that every month they revise last months figures either up or down to reflect reality. Figures lie and liars figure.

]]> By: Rebel Without a Clause https://barelyablog.com/tiny-employment-uptick/comment-page-1/#comment-21558 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:41:23 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=46241#comment-21558 Probably more than a 2.6 multiplier. Also add in several hundred thousand new, never-before-employed job-seekers each month, with a 3,000,000 bulge of college graduates each June. Certainly less than 1/2, maybe as few as 1/3 of these people are finding work now…lot of the kids simply moving back home to live w parents. Add it all together and the real unemployment is 3X the official figure. That said, I think the regime will be heavily debt-bubbling the economy during the pre-election months in an effort to increase hiring, and with (some) success.

]]> By: Nick https://barelyablog.com/tiny-employment-uptick/comment-page-1/#comment-21556 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:20:59 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=46241#comment-21556 UPS is more or less run by the Teamsters.

On a lighter note, have a very happy birthday, Ilana. [Thank you.]

]]> By: Redman https://barelyablog.com/tiny-employment-uptick/comment-page-1/#comment-21555 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:21:11 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=46241#comment-21555 Try this for the “facts” behind the Dec. jobs details: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

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