Not As Bad As They Thought It Might Be

Published October 3, 2013 12:31pm EST



The bad news of Shutdown ’13 seems not to have made things worse as measured by the weekly first time unemployment claims. Well … not much, anyway. As this headline from Bloomberg puts it:

Jobless Claims in U.S. Increased Less Than Forecast Last Week

Which means things are either less bad, or not quite so good, as we had expected.  

Either way … the fewer people not working, the better.  In Washington and in the provinces.