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France (In Their Own Words)

France (In Their Own Words)

As France continues to roil over labor reforms (and email bans) amid a perpetual state of emergency and its ongoing islamization, it appears The French are losing faith in La Republique. A recent IPSOS poll saw the citizenry sum up the country in 5 dismal words...

Poll: What word sums up France's future?

 1. Social explosion2. Decline3. Immobilism4. Decadence

Of course in America the leader would call them cynics and fiction peddlers.

h/t @MxSba

 

312K Full-Time Jobs Were Lost In Last Two Months, Offset By 118K Part-Time Hires

312K Full-Time Jobs Were Lost In Last Two Months, Offset By 118K Part-Time Hires

While we already assessed the quantitative aspect of today's jobs report, which we characterized as abysmal because even when factoring in the 35,000 Verizon job losses, there was some 130,000 unexplained layoffs (sorry, it wasn't the weather), it is time for a look at the qualitative aspects of the report. And, we are sad to report, that things here go from bad to worse: while in the recent past disappointing headline payrolls were at least offset by an improvement in full-time jobs, this did not happen in May.

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