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Thursday, August 25, 2011

How to Deal With Toxic In-Laws

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Survey: Which IT vendors get good grades from solution providers?

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The CBO's Laughably Optimistic Unemployment Projections

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Thursday, August 25, 2011


	The CBO's Laughably Optimistic Unemployment Projections Yesterday's report from the Congressional Budget Office was widely derided for "dated optimism." Reuters columnist James Pethokoukis wrote: "The rosy economic forecast is one reason I place little confidence in the CBO’s budget projections." Let's go over the unemployment projections. The CBO sees the rate dropping to 8.5% in 2012. Although more pessimistic than past estimates, this figure is optimistic compared to Wall Street estimates of 9.25% from Goldman and 9.5% from JP Morgan. But what's really controversial is the claim that unemployment will return to a steady 5%. This assumes that unemployment is entirely cyclical and disregards well-known structural factors such as changes in technology, skill mismatches and global trade shifts. Read »

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