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America’s Most Important Economic Storyteller Is Confused
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Newsweek stated that a total of 137,000 workers had lost their jobs in the companies highlighted in the story and held the story’s Corporate Killers responsible for the loss. Yet Newsweek failed to mention that the U.S. economy during that period was adding 137,000 new jobs every three weeks!
So the next time you encounter economic data, pay close attention to exactly what is being measured. Because we’re currently in the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ phase of our ‘silent’ recession: you can choose to reckon with the reality that a majority of Americans are struggling economically or you can cling to the truth that billionaires and corpor
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