Jobless Claims 4/12: Not Good
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Posted 2012-04-12 09:05
by Karl Denninger
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Jobless Claims 4/12: Not Good
 

There's just nothing here to like...

In the week ending April 7, the advance figure for  seasonally adjusted initial claims was 380,000, an increase of 13,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 367,000. The 4-week moving average  was 368,500, an increase of 4,250 from the previous week's revised average of  364,250.

Once again adjustments were the order of the day for the previous week (big surprise); the unadjusted and adjusted numbers this week, however, were basically flat (unadjusted was 381,875) which is a whopping +62,530 from the previous week.

The big table (now showing numbers to March 24th) shows regular state numbers coming in somewhat and the EUC and Extended numbers also dropping.  The latter is likely roll-off but the former may be actual jobs addition; all of this comes in reasonably-well with the employment report of last week.

In general there's nothing to see here other than what I've pointed out -- there's no growth in meaningful terms and as a result the premise behind the "we'll all be ok" meme continues to be false.

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Maddymax
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adler is saying prior weeks claims always revised up not down becuase they dont have all the data. Is that correct, not sure if anybody knows.

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Per a discussion this week with my friend, a software process engineer who just got laid off from Raytheon in El Segundo after 26+ years...

They are getting hit with layoffs. Nothing is being spared, even people with "active charge numbers." Her last day is the 20th and she said they are due to announce more layoffs the day she leaves. I can't find any significant coverage in the news.

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Ben's policy will lead to wage deflation and commodity inflation which will lead to the Greatest Depression and Uprising Ever.
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Who cares?

Not Mr. Market, who is currently back up 80 pts...

Ahhh...good 'ol rigged, manipluated, centrally-controlled "free" markets...
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why is market going ****ing nuts on this????????????

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Cuz now the QE rumor mill has fired up again.

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I good QE rumor, especially from a FED member, will always trump a bad report. Where have you been?
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from Maddymax's link wrote..
. . . most economists contacted by Dow Jones as well as Labor Department officials said they were unaware of the nearly uniform upward revisions in the data over the past year. (emphasis mine)
This is either an explicit admission of stupidity or one of the most egregious lies ever (or both).

I'm leaning towards stupidity for the "economists" and lie for the gov't officials.

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I dont understand these numbers. Does this number actually mean that almost 400k people a week are losing their job? If thats the case then how is it good that 1.5 million jobs are lost every month? If thats not the case then what do the numbers actually represent? Very confusing.
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Initial claims are offset by hires; you only see half of it.

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Amazing how they kept using that unrevised number for 6 weeks to claim the claims were at a 4 year low. The cooking pot got too big, as last weeks number was the biggest adjustment yet. Adler is wrong about the data not being in being why it is always revised upward. They estimate it. Why have they never estimated high? I haven't seen a revised downward since I started watching this data every week in early 2009. We don't have a sustained recovery until this number is in the 320K range.

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That NSA number is higher than last year's for the 1st week in April by almost 30,000(Even this year's SA number is 5,000 lower than last year's). Outside of 2009 and 2010, it's the highest for that week since 2003. Maybe the way they've been tweaking the SA numbers is a negative sign.

I mentioned the similarities between this year's numbers, '04 and '08. Here are the 1st 14 weeks of claims for those years. The column after each set is the 14 week average.


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Mann, I was sitting here thinking it would be nice to be able to access the archives for the news releases so you could see what kind of revisions have been made in the past and found where you can access them. I went through some of them for the years that I mentioned above, starting with the first release in March for each year.

Almost all of the revisions are upward, by either 2,000 or 3,000. One week's numbers were not revised in March 2004 and one week in March 2008 was revised downward by 3,000 but there were no upward revisions of the scale we've seen the last few weeks. Small sample size but it would be laborious to go through them individually.

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