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That’s 122,000 out of a labor force size of 170 million!!

Yes, month to month you have large absolute error bars vs. the monthly delta, but being an imperfect monthly barometer of labor force momentum is only the headline use of the establishment report.

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This is the point #1 in the article, the need for better sampling methods. You do not get that easily.
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That dating analogy would work better if America wasn’t messing up every relationship with lunatic behaviour.

Everyone swiped left long ago.

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