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How to create jobs

Now repeat after me: Unemployment is a lagging indicator. It does not cause recessions … it is caused by them.

Unemployment is always low when recessions begin and high when they end. That said, some business cycles are more severe than others. This downturn was one of them, so it is not surprising that the unemployment rate is much higher.

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- March 18, 2010 -

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