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The Mathematical Reality Is We’re Losing Over 600,000 Jobs a Month That Have Been Hidden From ViewMac Slavo
May 7th, 2013
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The Dow Jones is soaring. The unemployment rate is stable. People are shopping. America is in recovery.
Or is it?
Despite all of the positive spin being put on the global and domestic
economic recovery, the truth is that nothing of the sort is actually
happening.
Any observant analyst can deduce that 15,000+ stock market values are
a result of easy money being pumped into investment banks, who then
slam that money straight into markets. The Fed itself is reportedly
providing direct liquidity to the system. They can do this forever, so
long as our creditors let them. And, until they’re stopped, they’ll
continue to convince most Americans that financial markets and the
economy have been stabilized.
Underneath all the hoop-la, however, is the reality of the situation.
The latest employment report
from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics is a prime example of
the shenanigans being played by government statisticians and their media
cohorts behind the scenes.
While the official story is that non farm payrolls rose by 165,000
people last month leaving the unemployment rate at 7.5%, the truth is
that the devil is in the details:
<blockquote>Now for the bad news.
<blockquote>
The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.2 hour in April to 34.4 hours. Within
manufacturing, the workweek decreased by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, and
overtime declined by 0.1 hour to 3.3 hours. The average workweek for
production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls
decreased by 0.1 hour to 33.7 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)
</blockquote>
This is a problem. If we look at the “employed” figure of
143,724,000 people a drop of 0.2 hours is a full-time-equivalent
decrease of 1/2%. Applied to the employed population
this amounts to an imputed economic decrease of 718,620 jobs!That is, the loss of work-week hours of just 0.2 is the
same economic impact as firing 700,000 people!
There is a
huge problem coming this year and into
next in this regard as the trend of cutting hours back to get under
Obamacare limits is picking up steam
and will continue.Do not underestimate the economic impact of those hours-worked changes — you’d have to post up a +700k jobs figure to offset just this one month’s change in hourly workweek!You’ll be told this is a “good report” and it is, on the surface. But I bet not
one of the talking heads on CNBC runs the math on what the workweek means in terms of economic impact.
You heard it here first, and later this summer and into the fall when the jobs report continues to post up mid-100k numbers
but
consumer spending collapses into the toilet at a rate that is roughly
identical to when we’re losing 600-700,000 jobs a month and people are
scratching their heads trying to figure out why it’s happening as the
stock market crashes, you will be one of the few who understands what has happened and why.Via Karl Denninger’s Market Ticker</blockquote>
We may be creating jobs in America. But not only are we not creating enough
jobs to offset the amount of people entering the workforce, those who
have jobs are being forced to work fewer hours. Couple that with rising
prices for essentials like food and energy being fueled by the Federal
Reserve and US Treasury, and you’ve got quite a predicament.
They can show us their charts, make forward looking statements, cite
rising stock markets, and try to play with the statistics to give us a
perception of growth and improvement, but
they cannot rewrite the basic laws of arithmetic.This is going to end horribly for tens of millions of Americans and none of them see it coming.
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Wed May 08, 2013 11:06 am
