{"id":187564,"date":"2011-05-19T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/19\/its-jobless-thursday-79\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T22:35:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/19\/its-jobless-thursday-79\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial claims are out and they are better, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/weekly-us-jobless-claims-drop-to-409000-2011-05-19-847530\">still not enough to constitute a recovery in the job market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initial claims were at 403,000, still above the roughly 375K required for a meager recovery, while the less volatile 4 week moving average climbed to a 7 month high.<\/p>\n<p>In the longer time views, while continuing claims fell, extended and emergency claims rose.<\/p>\n<p>These are awful numbers, and Barack Obama has to be thanking his lucky stars about what a clown show the Republican Presidential campaign has become, because there were also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/43092985\">whole passel of truly anemic economic metrics released today<\/a>, with the Philadephia Fed survey, the Conference Board&#8217;s Index of Leading Economic Indicators, and existing home sales disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial claims are out and they are better, but still not enough to constitute a recovery in the job market. Initial claims were at 403,000, still above the roughly 375K required for a meager recovery, while the less volatile 4 week moving average climbed to a 7 month high. In the longer time views, while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,973,1088,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-economy","category-real-estate","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187564"}],"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=187564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}