Sid

I can hear it now.

Hope this trend continues.

Unemployment rates are measured by the government.

than govt. They interview 30,000 people.

They measure the unemployment rate slightly differently than the federal government does. If I recall correctly, though, they usually show a slightly higher unemployment rate than the "official" data, so hopefully this is a good sign of things to come.

The numbers only make any sense if you can believe that in our economic environment that folks by the millions just don't need work anymore. Yup, millions of working class folks during the worst downturn in generations just keep finding ways to become independently wealthy in the face of an ever increasing wealth differential and ever decreasing economic upward mobility.

Who are these folks, what is their secret? How are they going from Bush era wage slaves and cube rats to independently retired?

Wanting something to be true doesn't mean it makes any sense. The only way the unemployment numbers work is that most months more working age people drop out than get jobs and how can that jibe with actual economic conditions in modern America?