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• Employment-to-population ratio among men 25-54 hit all-time low in November

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  …as of November, 19.4% of American men in their prime working years didn’t have jobs. By this measure, the current job situation (for men, at least) is much, much worse than in any downturn since the BLS started measuring this stuff in 1948.Source/Full Story: Curious CapitalistRelated ItemsJuly 29, 2009 — The ...
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• PRICE FIXING

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  The government picks up the spending”outlay” slack for its citizens in order to keep the consumer GDP alive. Lets face it … How much lower would home prices be and and how many more jobs would be lost if the US government did not pay out Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment and Food Stamps? Lets take ...
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• 2010 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  2010 MERCEDES-BENZ C63 AMG STYLING | [8 out of 10] Automobile: “looks decidedly more like a gung ho street fighter” AutoWeek: “an aggressive-looking body” ConsumerGuide: “racy looks…sheer, extroverted extravagance” Detroit News: “like a fashion model snaking into a pair of tight jeans” While it ...
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• With inflation rising, the monetizing of debt (quantitative easing) appears to be working as the FED hoped, but, probably not the way they hoped.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  quote from Import/export report that came out with retail sales. (inflation is about 5% as defined by those who look at prices as the definition) quote: Import prices have risen in eight of the past nine months, increasing 10.1 percent over that period….. ……Nonfuel import prices rose 0.4 percent in November as ...
  3 days ago

• Economic and Labor Stats Scam?

  
  Vantage Point Trading — Authority: 132
  If you have been reading all my comments, I have posted some notes which shed light on some curious stats coming out in the economic data.  Here is one more piece.  The interesting thing about economics, and money in general, is that belief in something can in fact create it.  Although, it can also have [...]
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• Payroll services: Fasten your seatbelts, it’s a bumpy ride

  
  CPA Trendlines — Authority: 414
  Latest data shows a payroll industry workforce of 172,900.The October data, not seasonally adjusted, represents a gain of about 3% from the month before, and barely a change from the year ago 171,600.But, in between, and over the long haul, you can see the dramatic effects of economic cycles.Related: Accounting loses ...
  6 days ago

• A Closer Look: Preliminary county-level unemployment data for October 2009

  
  PolicyMap — Authority: 119
  // Preliminary county-level unemployment data for October 2009 is now available on PolicyMap. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment is higher than it was a year ago in all 372 metropolitan areas across the country. Nationally the average for November declined .2 percent from the previous month, but ...
  6 days ago

• Are You Unemployed?

  
  Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt — Authority: 127
  Should be a simple question-- but the government has a way of making nothing simple.
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• First Consumer Confidence Read Since Unemployment Report Upside Surprise, Is Down

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  The ABC Consumer Confidence index was just released, and is notable as it is the first confidence read since the NFP/unemployment number was released last week by the BLS. And despite all expectations, and proddings by the Comcastic ones that the presumed drop in unemployment would boost sentiment and confidence, the ...
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• Huge Japanese GDP Miss: 1.3% Revised Versus 4.8% Preliminary, 2.8% Consensus

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  And so Goldman will be forced to start revising its forecasts ever lower. Revised GDP came out at 1.3% versus preliminary annualized numbers of 4.8%. Now thats a miss that would make even the BLS and the D.C. propaganda bureau blush. Expectations were for 2.8% GDP.
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• Something is Broken

  
  Economic Disconnect — Authority: 127
  Sorry all, but another late day will keep a real post from appearing. I do have a few ideas to roll out though. Something is Broken I have been trying to wrap my mind around what I have been feeling over the past week regarding where things stand in the financial world. Surely the picture is very muddled right now, ...
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• Collapse In Tax Withholdings Refutes Improvements In Either Unemployment Or Corporate Profitability

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Even as the BLS and the administration are trying to cover up the real state of unemployment affairs using assorted semantic gimmicks of just what it means to be unemployed, and as companies provide adjusted EPS numbers, while actual earnings continue to collapse, the true barometer of spending, provided by the ...
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• The B(L)S NFP "Surprise" Is Now Dead And Burried

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Remember the jovial market response after the B(L)S came out with the 10% unemployment number courtesy of all able-bodied unemployed migrating to work in Tijuana? No? Neither does the market. The 10 Year is now back to pre NFP levels. It would appear the governments "data scrubbing" interventionism now has a half-life ...
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• Another Topping Sign: Moodys Loan Upgrades Outpace Downgrades For First Time In Over Year

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Unemployment may or may not be a lagging indicator (it sure wont be once BLS emails are "hacked" by enterprising Russians) but the Moodys loan upgrade/downgrade ratio is about the surest countertop indicator available anywhere. And now that Upgrades have surpassed Downgrades for the first time in ages, watch out ...
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• From the small business front, over Thanksgiving we had the opportunity to sit down socially and speak with 5 other small business owners.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  One was busy and “up” in sales - he only sells to the government, the rest of us had the WORST months in our collective histories (one business goes back to 1959 and November’s sales were the lowest ever since they moved into their current buildings in the 70s). Every owner (except federal contractor boy) had ...
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• November job numbers redux

  
  The Work Buzz — Authority: 415
  In another indicator that the economy is healing, November’s overall job loss numbers dropped by only -11,000 — less than economists predicted. Additionally, October’s job loss number was revised from -190,000 down to -111,000, and September was revised -219,000 down to -139,000.  That’s a sign things are ...
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• Unemployment Rate Shrinks, Trust Us

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 651
  U.S. equities cheered the Friday morning news that headline unemployment has ticked down for the first time in quite a while from 10.2% to 10% last month. An estimated 11,000 positions were cut by employers, which on the face of it is the best result in two years.However, we hate to be a wet...
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• Unemployment Rate Shrinks, Trust Us

  
  The Razor's Edge — Authority: 473
  U.S. equities cheered the Friday morning news that headline unemployment has ticked down for the first time in quite a while from 10.2% to 10% last month. An estimated 11,000 positions were cut by employers, which on the face of it is the best result in two years. However, we hate to be a wet blanket, but after ...
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• The Dollar Bounces Back

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 615
  That long-awaited correction in the currencies and commodities came full force on Friday. The selling of the currencies and commodities and buying of dollars was reminiscent of the days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008. The dollar index surges 1.7% on Friday… And gold… The shiny metal ...
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• Bah, humbug and labor statistics

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Here is a Top 10 of reasons to scrooge the BLS report: 10. As noted, nearly 300,000 people disappeared from the labor force, yet the BLS reports no increase in "discouraged workers" or workers forced to take part-time jobs for economic reasons. 9. Private sector service jobs supposedly increased by 51,000, yet the ...
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