Brad DeLong observes that seasonal adjustment is making a big difference to the employment picture:
It’ll probably take a few more months before we can really see if the history pattern justifying the seasonal adjustment is really playing out. The ground-truth is that we’re seeing a big Christmas-related surge in the number of people without jobs.
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