01-06-2017, 04:01 PM
(01-06-2017, 10:56 AM)Anthony Wrote: Annual Unemployment Rates, 2009 through 2016 (now that the December 2016 rate is in):
2009: 9.3%
2010: 9.6%
2011: 8.9%
2012: 8.1%
2013: 7.4%
2014: 6.2%
2015: 5.3%
2016: 4.9%
You really should take a look at the labor participation rate and the U-6 unemployment numbers. They tell a very different story.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises