Headlines

Rick Scott and Chuck Schumer feud over Puerto Rico

Paris’ Notre Dame ‘saved from total destruction,’ French fire official says

Flashback 2016: ISIS behind failed Notre Dame attack ...

O’Rourke: Trump inciting violence against Omar, American Muslims

Sanders takes on Fox and emerges triumphant

Zukerberg used Facebook data to fight rival and help friends, leaked documents show

Russia blocks news site for being anti-Putin ...

Report: Trump peace plan likely won’t include Palestinian state

William Weld announces challenge to Trump in GOP primary

Mueller report expected to be released Thursday morning

Poll shock: Bernie takes lead ...

Feds: 12M Americans remain sidelined, out of the workforce

Headlines

Trump’s health care blundering soothes Democrat infighting

President Trump announces new 5G initiatives: It’s a race ‘America must win’

‘This is boring’ Bill and Hillary speaking tour interrupted ...

Working class American men struggle to re-enter workforce

Roger Stone wants to put Assange on the stand

Trump giving ‘strong consideration’ to releasing ICE detainees ‘in sanctuary cities only’

Ebola outbreak nearing global emergency ...

Taiwan deports Chinese scholar for promoting unification

Rosenstein: Accusations against Barr are’bizarre’

Alan Greenspan says economy will start to fade ‘very dramatically’because of entitlement burden

Farage plans fresh revolution: Targets EU elections ...

Dershowitz: ‘No Constitutional difference’ between Wikileaks and New York Times

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5 shot dead at Ft. Lauderdale airport ...

Bomb threat closes key Canada border crossing ...

Report: Obama family building wall around new [DC] home

54 shot in first four days of 2017 in gun-controlled Chicago ...

Report: Obama releasing Gitmo prisoners who have vowed to behead Americans

Obama to Armed Forces: 'Women are at least as strong as men'

House Dems plot inauguration boycott ...

Trump orders all Obama diplomats home on day 1 ...

Former Snapchat employee says books are cooked

Biden to Trump: 'Grow up Donald. Time to be an adult.'

Record 95,102,000 Americans not in labor force ... up 18% since Obama took office

Apple cuts CEO Tim Cook's pay, citing performance ...

A Drop

Just so you know ... the recent unemployment data dump by the Bureau of Labor Statistics which pegged the unemployment rate at 8.1%, a drop from the previous 8.3%, neglects to highlight a few key statistics, viz, the actual number of persons employed, in fact, dropped by 120,000 and the workforce dropped a suspiciously staggering 580,000.  It is the interplay of these two numbers that creates the convenient fiction that the unemployment rate is dropping.  See: CPS Tables and click on the HTML version of the A-1 table under Monthly Household Data.