Thread: October Jobs Report Contest

+187,000 and 6.9%.

it's dark out there, really dark. we need some positive trumped up news. things are fine, really, i'm fine.

Contest closed. Thread will reopen in the morning after the report is released. Good luck!

Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.3% in Shutdown-Skewed October; 204,000 Jobs Added

The economy added 204,000 jobs in October -- more than consensus -- and hiring for September and August were revised up by a combined 60,00, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.3% from 7.2%. Concerns that the 16-day government shutdown would mar growth appear to be unfounded but Gene Sperling, director of President Obama’s National Economic Council, says the real question is: Will the shutdown have a lasting negative impact on growth?

More:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily...122903029.html

and here are some more details of the October jobs report from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/bu...dded.html?_r=0

Originally Posted by burrocrat

+187,000 and 6.9%.

it's dark out there, really dark. we need some positive trumped up news. things are fine, really, i'm fine.

We have a winner!

The unemployment number was off but Burro gets another Travel Mug! Good job!

Please PM me the shipping info. Thanks.

Originally Posted by burrocrat

+187,000 and 6.9%.

it's dark out there, really dark. we need some positive trumped up news. things are fine, really, i'm fine.

Hmmmmm.....posted @ 11:58 PM,
Inside information?

:toung:Gratz Burro:toung:

Good guess Burro, even if the numbers are trumped up!

thank you, thank you very much. it appears i'm much better at games of chance rather than skill.

i need another mug to go with the 4 sock monkeys dreamboatannie sent me for winning the furlough bet. i was going to take a mugshot of my family of sock monkeys and my family of 3 tsptalk mugs, but the one little monkey looked so sad without a mug.

i was hoping for the new stainless one because i already have the travel tumbler. maybe tom will let me pay the difference for the upgrade or else take it as a credit towards a tsptalk ball cap someday.

Hey Burro...give him a beer and take the mugshot..he'll be better off, much happier, than the others!!

Originally Posted by DreamboatAnnie

Hey Burro...give him a beer and take the mugshot..he'll be better off, much happier, than the others!!

i don't think batman drinks beer. besides he's too young for that, gotta wait until at least a sophmore in high school for the bonfire/booby parties. no sense rushing things, there's still plenty of time to change my evil ways, baby.