While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that the jobless rate climbed to 9.7% the previous month.
NOTE: John Williams, publisher of ShadowStats.com, disputes these numbers as a deliberate understatement to make Federal intervention efforts look better. Using the same Federal criteria that were practiced during the Great Depression, the jobless rate at the end of the previous rate is really 16.8%.
[added 12/25/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
Subsequent Events:
References:
The Ticker – Actual Unemployment Rate Hits All-Time high of 16.8% – Economy Watch
voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2009/09/actual_unemployment_rate_hits.html/?hpid=topnews
Current U.s. National Debt:
