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‘JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!’ Trump Is Super Happy About Jobs Report That Missed Everything
Look, let's not pretend like Donald Trump is in a position to make subtle arguments about why Friday's October jobs print was actually "mixed" or at least better than the headline numbers suggested.
And furthermore, let's not pretend like Donald Trump has any conception of the extent to which these numbers are still distorted by the hurricanes.
Because pretending like this President has done a deep-dive into the numbers and has developed a list of plausible arguments for why the report was act
The jobs report was definitely a huge nothing-burger – not that complicated – just look at the bond market – more flattening.
You know what else is a nothing-burger? the term nothing-burger.
To answer your question, Murphy: Your deranged bookmark in the oval.
lol, agree with that. No, it’s kinda like just overused every damned day, how many times a day to hear it or read it. And on that same line of thought, just count the number of times a day you hear someone say “at the end of the day…” or even worse, professional personalities who are interviewed all the time and how many times they say “Uh” when they make their remarks. omg.
…and once again, the birth/death adjustment, contributed bigly to the total. This BLS’ WAG statistic added 216,000 jobs to the non-seasonally adjusted figures, making up the bulk of job gains in October. As seems to have been the case in most of the recent reports, from this casual observer’s perspective…