This abomination brought to you by @WhiteHouseCEA.
@WhiteHouseCEA They fed him this junk food on Halloween night & he spit it up all over us the next morning.
This probing attack on our shared sense of labor-market reality will provoke debate when the underlying reality is fine & can be easily defended.
Helps prepare the ground & the troops for later attacks, if reality worsens.
Helps prepare the ground & the troops for later attacks, if reality worsens.
They want to count 95K jobs created in Aug & Sept (revisions) in Oct.
They don't want to count the loss of 20K Census temporary jobs in Oct but they do want to count the +20K from when they were hired (in Aug?).
They don't want to count the loss of 20K Census temporary jobs in Oct but they do want to count the +20K from when they were hired (in Aug?).
The big departure here is to skip over the official BLS number and focus on a number that's so massaged or "unskewed".
