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Has the US economy lost 7.6, or 11.2 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007?

“Why The US Has Really Lost 11.2 Million Jobs This Recession

…while the total US population has increased by 6.8 million from 303.3 million to just over 310 million [between December 2007, and] July 2010, over the same 32 month period, the civilian labor force has declined from 153.9 million to 153.6 million.

If some [...]

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John Fund on Pollster Scott Rasmussen

…Whose judgment do you trust more:
that of the American people or America’s political leaders?

Has the federal government become its own special interest group?

Do government and big business often work together
in ways that hurt consumers and investors?

Those who identify with the government on two or more questions are defined as the political class…

Before the financial crisis [...]

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Exploitation by the Mainstream Media?

After receiving the same information,

what are the chances of 100 people thinking relatively the same thing

or acting in a similar way?

 

34% of Americans said the First Amendment goes [...]

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Could some who follow statistical irregularities, take advantage of relative unawareness of the many, prior to collective realization?

There’s been some suggestions that the payrolls report

had been distorted by the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics

accounts for business births and deaths

 

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Do erased mistakes replicate faster?

If…the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus
and in reality the result was grossly less,
Winston’s job was to change previous versions,
so the old version would agree with the new one.

George Orwell

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On Unemployment: Why would some compare dissimilar calculations of economic statistics?

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.

The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people
from the political, economic and/or military consequences.

Joseph Goebbels

Statistics mask real economic pain

The jobless rate improved this week. It’s now [...]

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Can some come to irrational conclusions to justify erroneous assumptions?

The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold.

…We trace the deeper roots of this failure to the profession’s insistence on constructing models, that…disregard the key elements driving outcomes in real-world markets.

The economics profession [...]

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Bruce Bartlett on Tax Cuts and Revenue

…Tax Nonsense

On July 13, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, asserted that there was no net revenue loss from any of the Bush tax cuts, in defense of an earlier comment by Senator John Kyl, R-Arizona, that all spending increases must be offset so as not to increase the deficit but [...]

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1929-30 Quotes

Many of the low prices as a result of this hysterical selling
are not likely to be reached again in many years

R. W. McNeel
Analyst
New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929

American business has been diverting a substantial part of its attention,
its energies and its resources on the speculative game.

…Now that irrelevant, alien and [...]

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History Repeats?

“We do believe the recovery is strong.”

While rising debt levels are a risk to growth, mainly in Europe,
authorities in the region “are now really committed to solve it”
and “the problem has been contained.”

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Bloomberg, June 10, 2010

Statements by high officials are practically always misleading
when they are designed to bolster a falling market

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