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More scary stats from the BLS bunker...

There's just so much information at the BLS, though most of it only sees the light of day through the Bush Administration's rosy filter. I figure I'll pull out some of the more juicy tidbits as I trawl through the archives.

For example, here's are a couple which should have recession-nascent economists biting their nails:

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Hours are flat, and inflation adjusted weekly earnings down year over year.

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Look at the last three months. Eek.

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Great and useful work, as always. Keep it up.

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Do those numbers exclude energy and exclude food from the "core"? It's way worse than the numbers suggest.

Or way better, advocates of the Shock Doctrine might suggest.

cfm

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