How told you to ask that? LOL
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> Larry >
>> Waiv>>
>> > Mike hunt wrote:
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>> >> What part of "If one tales the time to do a proper search they will
>> >> discover that actually the economy is not currently, and has never >> >> been
>> >> in "RECESSION" by DEFINATION since 2000," and "The 2001 slow down was
>> >> reversed, in less than a year, by the tax RATE cuts passed by the
>> >> CONGRESS as requested by the President," Do you not understand? LOL >> >
>> > Most definitions of recession include 2 quarters of economic downturn.
>> > The economic downturn in 2001 lasted from March 2001 to November 2001,
>> > which included two quarters.
>> >
>> > You also said that the unemployment rate now is better than any time in
>> > the 1990s. You have failed to explain how today's unemployment rate of
>> > about 5.5% is better than that in 1999 when it was about 4%.
>>
>> There's more to unemployment data and meaning than one simple number... >>
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> That website is treating the unemployment rate as any other investment
> statistic, but I doubt there's much use in applying moving averages to
> it, at least for guaging the overall economy.
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> So is the overall employment situation in the US better now than it > was in the 1990s?