At 12:00 PM 3/7/2006, Greg Sevart wrote: >Long-term unemployment decreased as of the most recently reported figures, >labor force participation is up (though down, for obvious reasons, since >Katrina) year-over-year, unemployment in general is down to 4.7% (from a peak >of 6.3% in June of 2003), and GDP has been positive for the last 17 quarters. >Are all indicators pretty? No. But things aren't as bad now as they were a >couple years ago.
Uh, yeah... those numbers are made up. If you calculated GDP, CPI, and unemployment the way they were in the 80s, the numbers are a *lot* less favorable. It's like "1984"... 2,000,000 razors were produced this year. Do you have one I can borrow? http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P146055.asp http://www.weedenco.com/welling/lilogo.asp http://www.gillespieresearch.com/cgi-bin/bgn/ Julian
