Bewitched by the Numbers
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightThe data zealots have utterly discombobulated themselves. They were expecting something on the order of 150,000 new jobs to have been created in January. That would have been a lousy number, but they were fully prepared to spin it as being pretty good. They thought the official jobless rate might hop up a tick to 9.5 percent.