'Stavros' pid='64024' datel Wrote:Read this again. http://unemploymentdata.com/current-u6-u...ment-rate/ Also go two the LINKS in the peace. I'm not the only won who points fingers at hokey numbers that show up when convenient.
We already had this discussion. That website is just one guys opinion. How do you know he's right?
After writing some 500 economic articles for Seeking Alpha and discussing them with readers, one thing strikes me again and again, it's always the people with least economic training that vent the strongest (and most immutable) opinions. You are simply not qualified to make an informed decision which economic statistic is better methodologically and quite frankly I'm surprised you even try. This really is a rather specialist branch of economics. It would be like me venturing into a discussion on which resource figure is a better discription of E/A, GC or GLJ's. I wouldn't even dare.
What's more, the gallup and BLS figures roughly move in tandem. Anyone with some training in how complex ecoomic figures are composed would see nothing suspect there, really.