162,000 Jobs added in March

[Topspin]

Jan & Feb revised up 40,000
woot!!!

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

yet unemployment remained the same

 

[Onceler]

Yeah, baby!

Excellent news today.

Bet everyone still wants to talk about Guam tipping over, though...

 

[cawacko]

That is good news although over half those jobs were either with the U.S. Census or other temporary jobs which while still good does not portend signs of a looming recovery.

And the Guam comment is funny as hell so not surprising people still want to talk about it.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...9532892137828.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

Yeah, baby!

Excellent news today.

Bet everyone still wants to talk about Guam tipping over, though...

how cute, i don't recall you ever mentioning the incessant palin talk

 

[Onceler]

how cute, i don't recall you ever mentioning the incessant palin talk

"The Yurt m.o."

 

[Canceled1]

yet unemployment remained the same

And it wasn't nearly as high as they had hoped.

 

[Damocles]

It definitely appears as if we may have finally hit bottom, and I like that. However if we gained 600,000 per month for three years we'd barely be back where we started.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

"The Yurt m.o."

lol...coming from the guy who constantly tries to get others in gotcha moments like this, you suddenly find you can't actually admit you're as guilty as those you imagine you're trying to get a gotcha from...too funny how you can't take your own 'medicine'

thanks for admitting your partisan hackery

 

[Onceler]

It definitely appears as if we may have finally hit bottom, and I like that. However if we gained 600,000 per month for three years we'd barely be back where we started.

If you look at the big picture, it's daunting, no doubt. Still, I'll take any good news I can get, and I am a big believer that good news can feed on itself (just like bad news can).

It's too bad the markets are closed, because this would have likely pushed the Dow over 11K....

 

[Damocles]

If you look at the big picture, it's daunting, no doubt. Still, I'll take any good news I can get, and I am a big believer that good news can feed on itself (just like bad news can).

It's too bad the markets are closed, because this would have likely pushed the Dow over 11K....

Which I would have liked again. However, I doubt it would because it is about half of what they expected.

 

[Onceler]

Which I would have liked again. However, I doubt it would because it is about half of what they expected.

Didn't they expect 180K? From what I read, economists were still pretty happy because the revisions on earlier months more than made up for the difference...

 

[Topspin]

Also census workers were 48,000 and were expected to be over 85,000. Private sector jobs grew more than expected. It was a great report.

 

[TuTu Monroe]

And it wasn't nearly as high as they had hoped.

Just wait until the employers are hit with the new taxes. Obama is anti-business.

 

[zappasguitar]

Just wait until the employers are hit with the new taxes. Obama is anti-business.

Specifics??

 

[Topspin]

let her check her teabag talking points and get back to you

 

[Canceled2]

Also census workers were 48,000 and were expected to be over 85,000. Private sector jobs grew more than expected. It was a great report.

48,000 temporary part time government workers...way to grow an economy *sarcasm*

 

[Damocles]

Also census workers were 48,000 and were expected to be over 85,000. Private sector jobs grew more than expected. It was a great report.

Nope. They hired 100,000 temporary Census workers.

 

[TuTu Monroe]

48,000 part time government workers...way to grow an economy *sarcasm*

Temporary government workers, no less.

 

[Onceler]

Nope. They hired 100,000 temporary Census workers.

Was the 162K figure really half of what they expected?