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Title: December jobs report: Unemployment falls to 9.4%
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CNN Money
URL Source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/07/new ... port/index.htm?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Published: Jan 7, 2011
Author: CNN Money
Post Date: 2011-01-07 09:03:20 by go65
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Views: 4551
Comments: 9
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.4% -- its lowest level since May 2009, the Labor Department reported Friday. Businesses were hiring, adding 113,000 jobs to payrolls in the month. But the government continued to shed staff, cutting 10,000 workers from payrolls. But the two previous months were better than originally thought. November was revised up to 71,000, while October was revised to 210,000, adding a combined 70,000 jobs to the 2010 total. Economists surveyed by CNNMoney had forecast 150,000 jobs added during December, and 100,000 for November's revision. Many economists boosted their predictions earlier in the week, after private payroll processor ADP released a shockingly strong report Wednesday, showing private employers added 297,000 jobs to their payrolls. That report is often seen as a bellwether for the government report that follows. While the latest data brings hope for 2011, economists still caution that job gains will be gradual at best. There's still a long way to go to recover the 8.5 million jobs lost since the Great Recession began. The labor market typically needs at least 300,000 to make a difference in the unemployment rate, economists say. Anything less than that is just barely enough to keep pace with population growth. Overall, the economy rounded out 2010 with 1.1 million jobs added, the best one-year gain in hiring since 2007.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes, badeye, lucysmom, fred mertz, buckaroo, sneakypete, brian s, skip intro (#0)
the conservative recovery continues....
Bull Shit. With Only this. Not even looked at the 'inside' of the BLS agit/prop yet. How do you top out for a year at 9.8%, with job losses ALL year. Then the first time we get ANY kind of 'addition'(I still don;t believe it;} the rate drops .4%. Details within 12 hours. Truth just getting it's pants on. Which, BTW, did you note how the MSM came out promoting this number beforehand? That Bloomberg had a Positive statement in RED BEFORE thenumbers were posted!? 8D
we haven't had job losses all year, over 1 million private sector jobs were created in 2010 (more than in 8 years of Bush).
Before I reply I want to make sure you're serious. I'm waiting for you to post. Thank you.
Well, I guess you were being funny, putting up the BLS Lies as a joke. Here's not a joke: ZeroHedge: We are confident that in 2011 the MOVE bond vol index will be far more relevant that then the VIX, and that 200 pip daily moves in key FX pairs such as the EURUSD will be a normal occurrence. As validation of the first, just after the NFP number was announced, it was not US stocks, but the massive German treasury market that was HALTED due to a surge in volatility. This bears repeating: the massive, presumably liquid, and critical sovereign debt market of Europe's biggest economy was HALTED ! We look forward to many more such examples of connected vessels, as computer, robots and the few remaining homo sapiens traders, pursue only modestly manipulated markets in which to trade volatility.
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With Peak Oil in May 2005 Economic Growth is now no longer possible: " This "income is all" rule has been mostly obscured in recent decades during which globalized foreign trade promoted by neo-liberals has pre-empted domestic development as the engine of economic growth in all market economies around the world. In today's game of globalized international trade, the new operative rule is that "profit is all" and that high profit in competitive export trade requires low domestic wages, even if low local wages retard domestic economic development by reducing aggregate purchasing power in the domestic market to cause overcapacity that relies on exports. As workers' wages are not sufficient to buy the goods they produce, domestic markets fall into underdevelopment and export to high-wage economies is needed to produce profit for companies. "
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestBusinesses were hiring, adding 113,000 jobs to payrolls in the month. But the government continued to shed staff, cutting 10,000 workers from payrolls.
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How do you top out for a year at 9.8%, with job losses ALL year.
#4. To: go65 (#3)
we haven't had job losses all year, over 1 million private sector jobs were created in 2010 (more than in 8 years of Bush).
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Before I reply I want to make sure you're serious.
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