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[bryant]

Wow, those are certainly some attractive jobless numbers there. In fact, they’re so good I stole the graphic so I could stick it up here.

Damn, but that’s good. So good, I decided to reformat it a bit so I could admire it again.

Oh. And I guess employment dropped by 41,000 anyhow. So, uh… what’s unemployment look like, anyhow?

As they say, all this really means is that the rate of increase has decreased.

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[gentlyepigrams]

I think part of my problem is that my perception of the economy comes in large part from the gut-o-meter. Maybe it's because I know so many people in software/IT, but my gut says too many of my friends are unemployed or scared of losing their jobs for me to feel really confident in anything approaching an economic recovery.

And the jobless claims only tell half the story there. It's job loss vs. job creation, and I don't *feel* like there's a lot of that.