{"id":184530,"date":"2012-03-29T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/29\/its-jobless-thursday-34\/"},"modified":"2012-03-29T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:30:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/29\/its-jobless-thursday-34\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-29\/u-s-jobless-claims-fell-last-week-to-lowest-since-april-2008.html\">really good week<\/a>,  with initial jobless claims falling 5,000 to 359,000, (well sort of, last week&#8217;s numbers were revised up from 348K to 364 K, so apples to apples is a little bump up), with the 4 week moving average fell 3,500 to 365K, with continuing claims falling by 41K to 3.34 million, and extended claims fell 79K to 3.24 million.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is a proverbial turd in the punch bowl in all of this, which is that all of these figures are seasonably adjusted, and we&#8217;ve had the mildest winter in the United States pretty much ever so we might be seeing a lot or economic activity that would normally be in April or May.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll find out then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another really good week, with initial jobless claims falling 5,000 to 359,000, (well sort of, last week&#8217;s numbers were revised up from 348K to 364 K, so apples to apples is a little bump up), with the 4 week moving average fell 3,500 to 365K, with continuing claims falling by 41K to 3.34 million, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}