Remember that headline that showed jobless claims down for the last week -- they are "seasonally adjusted".
Claims fell from 586k the week before to 492k - a real drop.
But - but - but --- the raw numbers (Not Seasonally Adjusted - NSA)are rather different: initial claims are 507k, 629k, 716k, and for this week, 718k….
That's an increase of 211,000 in 4 weeks.
Oh well!
AAR Rail Traffic in November: "Continued Economic Uncertainty Reflected in
Rail Volumes"
-
From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) AAR Data Center. *Graph
and excerpts reprinted with permission*.
*Continued Economic Uncertainty Reflecte...
1 hour ago
No comments:
Post a Comment