US Unemployment Rate Hits 37.2%

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–  US Unemployment Rate Hits 37.2% (Wealthy Debates, May 14, 2014):

Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true “Misery Index.” Because, according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud.

In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.

Marotta, who recently advised those worried about an imploding economy to get a gun, said that the government isn’t being honest in how it calculates those out of the workforce or inflation, the two numbers used to get the Misery Index figure.

“The unemployment rate only describes people who are currently working or looking for work,” he said. That leaves out a ton more.

“Unemployment in its truest definition, meaning the portion of people who do not have any job, is 37.2 percent. This number obviously includes some people who are not or never plan to seek employment. But it does describe how many people are not able to, do not want to or cannot find a way to work. Policies that remove the barriers to employment, thus decreasing this number, are obviously beneficial,” he and colleague Megan Russell in their new investors note from their offices in Charlottesville, Va.

They added that “officially-reported unemployment numbers decrease when enough time passes to discourage the unemployed from looking for work. A decrease is not necessarily beneficial; an increase is clearly detrimental.”

Then there is the Misery Index, which is a calculation based in inflation and unemployment, both numbers the duo say are underscored by the government. He said that the Index doesn’t properly calculate how Uncle Sam is propping up the economy with bond purchases and other actions.

“These tricks, along with a host of other dubious accounting schemes, underreport inflation by about 3 percent,” they wrote, adding that the official inflation rate is just 1.24 percent.

“Today, the Misery Index would be 7.54 using official numbers,” they wrote. But if calculations tabulating the full national unemployment including discouraged workers, which is 10.2 percent, and the historical method of calculating inflation, which is now 4.5 percent, ‘the current misery index is closer to 14.7, worse even than during the Ford administration.”

1 thought on “US Unemployment Rate Hits 37.2%”

  1. I don’t know about any misery index, but I do know that out of 335 million people, over 100 million working age people are out of work. This isn’t for fun, many have made the decision to end their lives rather than live as millions of us now have to exist…….it is truly awful.
    My guess is that the misery index is the same, if not higher than unemployment. The Wall Street guy said it was 37%, that sounds about right.
    Meanwhile, congress cuts food stamps and other safety net protections.
    It is time to rise up, and throw out all the bastards. But, until people stop listening to US media, it won’t happen….US media covers nothing but political correctness and junk like that. They cover fires, local traffic and weather, and that is about all.
    They don’t talk about what is happening with Russia, or with the dollar and the dropping usage around the world….nothing real. It has gotten so bad, even the politically unconnected realize it is crap, and no longer believe a word of it.
    As things get worse, you will see more suicides and other methods people use to end their lives. I am not speaking of millionaires down to their last million…….I am speaking of the average person who has waited for the past decade for something to turn up and pump up the economy again. Instead, stores continue to close, poverty grows, beggars are everywhere, and carrying a gun provides no protection.
    Telling people to get a gun isn’t the smartest thing. Most people already have guns, this is the US……..a gun is simply another household item.
    Meanwhile, no opportunities present themselves, nobody can get a job but to go online and beg for work…..and it sucks. There is no personal connection allowed, the corporate model that now rules America has destroyed it.
    Life has become a hell for millions, and the rest don’t care……until it happens to them……..

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