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Jobless claims jump most since Sandy, now flat for 13 months

Jobless claims jump most since Sandy, now flat for 13 months. “For 13 months, we have meandered around a flat-line initial claims number in the 365k range – and we remain there.” Oh, yeah… unexpectedly!

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Progressive Hemrrhoid says:

January 31, 2013 at 2:35 pm

Have you heard about Dirty Harry Reid informing people that we are in a recovery yet? Me thinks Reid and Biden drink from the same Kool-Aid machine.
AZ Dude says:

January 31, 2013 at 1:32 pm

That darn George W. Bush just won't go away!
deepthinker says:

January 31, 2013 at 1:01 pm

Flat line means dead right? Just like our economy and those that put der leader back in the WH
PsychoDad says:

January 31, 2013 at 11:48 am

OMG you just can't make this stuff up. Headline at Fox:

"Obama's jobs council shutting down Thursday"

Great stuff in there, including an absolutely Orwellian statement from Official White House Sphincter Jay Carney, that "the council "was always intended" to expire after two years"
- Not so silent says:
  
  January 31, 2013 at 9:44 pm
  
  I wish dear leader would expire after two years....
- drb says:
  
  January 31, 2013 at 12:16 pm
  
  they must have suggested that Obama lower taxes and reduce regulations on businesses...