Friday, July 08, 2022

BLS, or Just BS?

Bureau of Labor Statistics came up with a number pleasing to the Ruling Junta.

...in June US payrolls rose by 372K, smashing expectations of a 268K increase, coming well above the whisper number of 245K, and trouncing Goldman's preferred payrolls range of 175-250K....

Yes, but....... 

 ...while the establishment survey printed a red hot +372,000, the household survey showed just the opposite, tumbling by -315,000....

Who you gonna believe?  Your next-door neighbor participant in the household survey, or the joke called "Marty Walsh"?

Lots more at Ticker's place.  He discovered the 600K Bachelor's degree-holders who flat-out disappeared from the numbers altogether.  They were all vaccinated, too! (I might have made that last part up.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Driving a stake into the administrative state: Why Trump could not fire Fauci


The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Should a genuinely reformist president ever take office, Schedule F must be issued on the very first day.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-astonishing-implications-of-schedule-f/

Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.”