As I get a jump on our weekly research this morning, I am yet again baffled by the disconnect between rhetoric and reality. This morning, my baffledness has to do with jobs.
Here’s our chart of weekly unemployment claims: click to enlarge…
Yep, we haven’t seen so few weekly claims in 44+ years (March 1973). Oh, and by the way, the U.S. population has grown by 50% since then.