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To: AC Flyer who wrote (39742)	10/17/2003 10:51:58 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hello ACF Mike, BLS is suspect, that straight line is dubious, recession is apparently not, else nothing is wrong, and so the bad stuff must be still ahead of us, therefore we might do well to not be confused by <<Reality>>, for it could prove cheaper. Chugs, Jay P.S. I scrounged up this series on your referenced site: data.bls.gov Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National) SIC Series Catalog: Series ID : EEU00500049 (n) Not Seasonally Adjusted Industry : Total private SIC Code : N/A Data Type : AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS, 1982 DOLLARS ... and I conclude that, especially given the understated inflation rates, the nonsensical hedonic adjustments, and the chained dollar data massage, that AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS, 1982 DOLLARS has in fact gone absolutely nowhere, relative to debt level.