Don’t Fall for the Government Fake-Out

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Washington, DC is pretty proud of the employment numbers it has been pumping out. Most recently, the Labor Department reported that the US unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% in January.

That’s an eight-year low going back to the 2008–2009 Financial Crisis.

The actual number of new jobs was a little on the light side, at 151,000 versus the expected 190,000, but most of the Wall Street crowd was impressed with the +0.4% monthly increase in wages.

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