@JustinWolfers: Non-farm payrolls added a cracking 517,000 jobs in January, well above market expectations of +190k. This is a breathtaking number. That spike in stories about layoffs? It was about a small unreprese...…
@mcopelov Isn't that a generalisable point for the USA today: the discourse has become detached from reality? The 4th estate has gone awol. Bias, prejudice and partisanship dominate the media.
@mcopelov Indeed. I was imprecise. Your focusing of the point is what I intended. Worth saying too that it's not the entire 4th estate, just a worryingly large section of it. But this is the kind of thing that happens in a plutocracy.