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The Final Argument: The Best Recession in History

latebloomer Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 9:54 AM

I can kind of see the point of "seasonal adjustments", though I think footnotes to explain seasonal variations would be more aboveboard (which may be the point of using adjustments). But, when exactly did we decide someone bacame an un-person after a certain period spent unemployed? I'm reasonably certain the practice predates the Obama regime by a good long time.

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The Final Argument: The Best Recession in History

Hey good news everybody.

People are still losing jobs at a faster rate than we’re creating them.

Thank God for the best recession in the history of mankind.

And thank God for Barack Obama being the best recessionary president in the history of mankind.

"This is the best looking contraction in GDP you'll ever see," says Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

Yeah, just think about how great everything would look if Barack Obama wasn’t president, er… I mean: how bad everything would look.

“Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by...

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