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We won't be looking at jobs numbers in 5 years (to gauge economy) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyECa58Kg4Q
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FrankWilhoit
May 26, 2026, 10:10 PM
The biggest problem with economic statistics is not which numbers are deemed more important than others, but the fact that they are nationally aggregated, whereas the economies that people actually interact with are local.