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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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August 12th, 2010 | Tags: Accounting Ethics, CPA Continuing Education, Debt, Generational Ethics, Great Depression, Journalism Ethics, Political Ethics, Social Security, Statistics, UnemploymentIf 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 [...]
Medicare Gets New Lease On Life; Social Security Program Remains Healthy
The new health care law has significantly improved the prognosis for Medicare, extending the life of its trust fundby 12 years until 2029, and thereby delaying any need for dramatic changes in benefits or revenues…
The annual check-up from government actuaries overseeing the nation’s two central [...]
Summary of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances
Fy 2010 – 2011 Proposed Guilford County Budget
Page 19 Amended Proposed Change vs. Adopted
FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 $ %
TOTAL Expenditures $ 596,945,277 $ 568,900,000 $ (17,210,932) -2.9%
Page 18 Amended Proposed Change vs. Adopted
FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 $ %
TOTAL Expenditures $ 622,179,667 $ 586,299,343 $ (25,045,979) -4.1%
You are so intent that you believe
only what you believe that you believe
that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe
without believing that you believe it
Orson Scott Card
Would you rather be happy
or know?
You take the blue pill
the story ends
you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you [...]
SnowJob: Revising the Non-Farm Payrolls Report
It appears as though the concerns expressed by the Administration about the snow storms and their impact on lost employment was overdone, if not misplaced.
The market is pleasantly surprised with this -36,000 jobs number, since the expectations had been calibrated lower so effectively.
In fairness to the Obama Administration, they are [...]
Early retirements strain Social Security system
Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes the next two years, the first time [...]
Branson warns that oil crunch: Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunch
Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.
…Other British executives who will support the warning include Ian Marchant, chief executive of [...]
TrimTabs: Here’s Why The Real Jobs Loss Number Was 5x Worse Than What The BLS Reported
TrimTabs employment analysis, which uses real-time daily income tax deposits from all U.S. taxpayers to compute employment growth, estimated that the U.S. economy shed 104,000 jobs in January. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported the U.S. economy lost [...]
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