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To: Wayners who wrote (53196)	6/6/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Wayne, re-read my posts I do not belive any statistics published by this government. Haim

To: Wayners who wrote (53196)	6/6/2000 4:51:00 PM
From: shamsaee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

The thread has been doing this for a while.IT takes the bad numbers and says I told you so and anything positive is a government conspiracy.I am trying to learn TA and frankly not interested in conspiracy theories.I don't see how with an approach like his,one can TA without bias.I am looking for charts with unbiased explanations of the technicals.This tread is very bearish on everything.Everything I have read about TA says that you have to be completely neutral to be able to read charts for what they are. No disrespect meant just stating the facts.

To: Wayners who wrote (53196)	6/6/2000 7:22:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

I don't trust either number. The number of layoffs shrank last month, now that's not consistent with employment dropping nearly 1 mill in the BLS household report. You may have also had a large number of new part-time hires as a result of the Census hiring 375,000 and the rescinding of the benefits limitations for Social Security recipients wanting to work. bondsonline.com

To: Wayners who wrote (53196)	6/6/2000 8:35:00 PM
From: Sweet Ol	Respond to of 99985

I don't find it strange at all. The employment numbers are relatively pure statistics. The productivity is an indirect measurement which has not kept up with the changes in our economy. It measures manufacturing output and manufacturing hours worked. This is a pretty poor measure of a what is increasingly becoming a service economy. What I think is funny is that the economists can't seem to come up with any better metric. Best to all. John