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The Fed's Birth Death Adjustment
Initial job claims have suddenly spiked. The Labor Department made a birth death adjustment. What's not an estimate from our government is that jobless claims just spiked last week as people are looking for real checks. If there's real jobs out there and the job growth is up, then why are so many people looking for checks? This is the conflict that's in our labor statistics.