Ever since the 1930’s creation of the Unemployment Rate (“Ur”), it has been bandied about by politicians whenever it provided some measure of expediency.
This expediency has always been to prop up a political narrative, whenever the Ur posed positive indications of how the labor market is faring, and the crowing is always directly, but negatively correla…
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