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To: carranza2 who wrote (132109)	3/15/2017 1:43:03 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217679

You're correct about one fact. The Labor Force Participation Rate includes people 16 years and older rather than 18 years and older as I had mistakenly recalled. So it's shocking to learn that a massive big-government program, called High School, keeps many from participating fully in the labor force during normal work hours. Clearly a new national scandal for Fox News to titillate viewers with! The U3 Unemployment Rate includes only those 86 year olds who are looking for work. The U6 Unemployment Rate includes 58 year olds who would like to work but have given up looking. The U6 Unemployment Rate is the statistic you're talking about. - macrotrends.net The Labor Force Participation Rate is the ratio of "those working or looking for work" divided by "the total number of people 16 and over". If you're older than 16 you're in the denominator of this statistic whether you want to work or not at the age of 86 or any other age. - bls.gov This is why our aging population is driving this statistic Republicans have been so fond of misusing. The labor force participation rate makes no evaluation or value judgements about why people are not participating, only whether they are or are not. But many Republicans do view this not very meaningful statistic with an intense sense of judgement. Will Trump improve this statistic by sending the elderly to death camps, eliminate High School after the 16th birthday, round-up wealthy people and send them to labor camps, - you know the usual fascist nonsense.

To: carranza2 who wrote (132109)	3/16/2017 4:04:47 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By fred woodall Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217679

some boyz considering organizing an etf that is simple and elegant it could be that, given the gold price suppression via paper-gold, gold shall end up being only correctly priced once in our life time, when paper-gold defaults and physical gold de-couples there are folks trying to organise the doomsday trade, namely (i) requiring clients to purchase and desposit for storage physical gold, and (ii) simultaneously short paper-gold of equal quantity, and (iii) sit back and wait. the net position is inconsequential, storage cost insignificant, and carrying cost of the short paper position negligible. pay-day dawns when paper-gold / hypothecation collapses and trades triple-waterfall down to zero, and physical goes to any number above 5K pop corn?