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These Ain't Your Grandfather's "Jobs"--Why Friday's Rip Should Be Sold

• davidstockmanscontracorner.com

These artifacts of the BLS' seasonally maladjusted, trend-cycle modeled, heavily imputed, endlessly crafted and five times revised "jobs" numbers have precious little to do with the real health of the main street economy.

Indeed, the six-year run of job gains since early 2010 primarily represents "born-again jobs" and part-time gigs. In economic terms, they do not remotely resemble your grandfather's industrial era economy when a "job" lasted 40 to 50 hours per week all year round; and most of what the BLS survey counted as "jobs" paid a living wage.

Not now. Not even close.

The Wall Street fools who bought the dip still another time on Friday do not have the slightest clue that the US jobs market is actually quite dead.


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