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July 08, 2005

Afternoon Cowbell

Modest job growth in June, but May's numbers were revised upwards a bit. And of course the unemployment rate fell to 5%-- the lowest in years.

Highlights:

· 146,000 new payroll jobs were created in June. Payroll job gains in May were revised up to 104,000.

· Twenty-five consecutive months of job gains have added over 3.7 million new jobs to payrolls.

· Payroll employment has increased by 2.1 million over the year and over 1 million new payroll jobs have been created so far this year.

· The unemployment rate (calculated from the household survey of employment) edged down to 5.0% in June, from 5.1% in May. Last June, the unemployment rate was 5.6%.

· The unemployment rate is the lowest since September 11, 2001 and remains below the averages of each of the past 3 decades.

Thanks to my other top-secret government source, Mr. X.

He leaks me all sorts of sensitive reports that only about 300,000 people in government and the media get.

Oh, and if you call up for it, they'll send it to you, no questions asked.

So, you know, I'm really very important.

As promised some time ago, not cowbell, nor Kim Richards, but...

Mallory!

Goddess of Bubbleheaded Mall-Obsessed Consumerism. Patron Saint of Expanding Retail Sales Figures.

posted by Ace at 02:18 PM

Comments

Only fitting since Alex Keaton, conservative capitalist was her brother.

Posted by: Dman on July 8, 2005 02:29 PM

Damn. I'd forgotten just how fly she was back then.

I think I feel my retail sales figures expanding right now!

Posted by: 12" Saturday Night on July 8, 2005 02:30 PM

Mallory! nice...

Posted by: brak on July 8, 2005 02:31 PM

What ever happened to fair Justine? Jason seems to be having a career resurgence, why not sis?

Posted by: JFH on July 8, 2005 02:35 PM

Awesome.

"B-b-b-bbbbutt the ECONOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYY!"

^ stupid farkin libs...

Posted by: fat kid on July 8, 2005 02:42 PM

Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens.

Posted by: lauraw on July 8, 2005 02:43 PM

If it makes ace happy, then it makes me happy. Cowbells and Mallory! Hip hip horay!

Posted by: on July 8, 2005 02:45 PM

*sniff*

God Bless You, Ace.

Thanks to Mallory, I now feel a little irrational exuberance...in my pants.

Posted by: Rocketeer on July 8, 2005 02:47 PM

I think this Mallory is a little more in tune with the times.

Even though she's French.

Posted by: Megan on July 8, 2005 02:56 PM

Here's my own personal observation about the economy, on July 4 I saw something I have never seen before while driving up I-35 to Dallas.

18 wheelers. Road was full of them.

Working for a transportation and logistics company, I can tell you when you convince truckers to haul stuff on their July 4 holiday, there is more stuff that needs to be moved that we have trucks and drivers to move it.

That is a good thing.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on July 8, 2005 03:20 PM

WOOF! WOOF! Mallory reminds me of my ex, who cares about the rest of the post?

Posted by: 72 DOGS on July 8, 2005 04:01 PM

WOOF! WOOF! Mallory reminds me of my ex, who cares about the rest of the post?

This makes me question your hetero creds. Or maybe you have a Laffer Curve in your pants?

(I kid.)

Posted by: Rocketeer on July 8, 2005 04:34 PM

ACE - Mallory is a fucking lot better looking than Kim or some old hippie with a cowbell.

Slice like a hammer!

Posted by: shit from shinola on July 8, 2005 06:00 PM