The Other American Lost Decade

From the jobs report:

In the week ending June 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 627,000, an increase of 15,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 612,000. The 4-week moving average was 617,250, an increase of 500 from the previous week's revised average of 616,750.

Last week's figure was revised up from 602,000, iirc. Funny how these things never get revised down. Mish: "Between May 1999 and May 2009, employment in the private sector sector only rose by 1.1%, by far the lowest 10-year increase in the post-depression period... Within months, the economy will have lost jobs over a full decade for the first time since the Great Depression. Moreover no job recovery is in sight."



More here.

Next Stop: Bothell Country Village

Tomorrow! Me! Bothell Country Village! Noon-2pm. This is a small but pleasant market; they don't really entirely a stage setup, tho' they do let you use the market manager's tent, and they don't really have a seating area, which is too bad. I should talk to them about how to maybe improve this situation, I think the opportunity is there. And they seem to like me, and that's awfully nice.

In completely unrelated news, I really need one of these. (Let the videos load and play from start, you'll lulz. Stolen from a friend on Facebook.)