March Jobs Report Below expectations

[bobabode]

Poor Whell, praying for America's economy to fail. On Good Friday, at that.
What is wrong with you, man?

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Poor Whell, praying for America's economy to fail. On Good Friday, at that.

Hope he doesn't get housemaids knee.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Hope he doesn't get housemaids knee.

Monica sold him her kneepads.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

This isn't the first thread you've started trying to blame the consequences of 30 plus years of right wing trickle down economic policies on the left. The last one was just a few weeks ago. Give it a rest dude. Nobody here is buying that crap.

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy - all per-programed. Kindly point me to anywhere in this thread where I've blamed anyone for anything.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by whell

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy - all per-programed. Kindly point me to anywhere in this thread where I've blamed anyone for anything.

Whelly, Whelly, Whelly, Whelly, who do you think you're kidding?

Everybody here knows exactly what your agenda is.

It's as clear as day.

[icenine]

Whell probably wants the economy to tank so a Klown Kar Kandidate has a better chance next year.

[whell]

Originally Posted by icenine

Whell probably wants the economy to tank so a Klown Kar Kandidate has a better chance next year.

Um, you mean the economy isn't in the tank?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

Um, you mean the economy isn't in the tank?

Correctimundo. Only an blind ideologue, such as yourself, would characterize 60 plus months of positive job growth and a stock market almost tripling as in the tank.

Don't you realize how ridiculous you look or is self awareness not your strong suit?

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Correctimundo. Only an blind ideologue, such as yourself, would characterize 60 plus months of positive job growth and a stock market almost tripling as in the tank.

Don't you realize how ridiculous you look or is self awareness not your strong suit?

So the "blind ideologues" at CNBC look ridiculous to you too? From the linked article:

The jobs numbers come as both the economy and corporate profits have been weakening substantially.

In its most recently estimate, the Federal Reserve's Atlanta branch is projecting the U.S. economy to show just a 0.1 percent growth rate in the first quarter. At the same time, corporate profits are expected to drop about 3 percent for the period and another 2 percent or so in the second quarter, according to S&P Capital IQ.

I don't know what you're reading, but things aren't exactly humming along out there. Now, there may be underlying reasons for this:

"We were due a clunker," said John Canally, chief economic strategist at LPL Financial. "It's probably the same things that are going to be impacting the earnings season in a couple weeks. It's the strong dollar hitting manufacturing, the port strike hitting manufacturing, it's the really awful weather...But across all sectors, it was just pretty soft."

So, this might simply be the hard numbers catching up with expectations. Or....

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

"We were due a clunker," said John Canally, chief economic strategist at LPL Financial. "It's probably the same things that are going to be impacting the earnings season in a couple weeks. It's the strong dollar hitting manufacturing, the port strike hitting manufacturing, it's the really awful weather...But across all sectors, it was just pretty soft."

So, this might simply be the hard numbers catching up with expectations. Or....

Not according to what you quoted above.