
Twelve Gallons of Milk
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When the august pay rolls report came out at the beginning of september, they announced that 235 thousand jobs had been created. This was wa lower than people had expected and it started this entire multimonth news narrative about how the delta virus was really holding back hiring. Now we have gone back, you know, the lovely government statisticians have gone back and looked at what the number really was. And the number is now 483 thousand, which was actually, if that had come out initially, that wouldn't have been a disappointment at all. That would have been a big win. It just reminds us how much uncertainty there is in these stics and how much we don't
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