There has been lots of talk this week about turning corners. Here are some stats, without comment, from the CSO.
Next: Seasonally Adjusted Annual Average Standardised Unemployment Rates (SUR) (%) by Year
And to be more accurate: Seasonally Adjusted Standardised Unemployment Rate (%) by Month
So i suppose a quick glance will show that a falling GNP is parallel to a rise in unemployment. Ive heard since the start of this mess that GNP figures should be used as an indicator instead of GDP, but I’ve yet to hear a reason as to why they’ve settled on GDP.
Oh dear, can we have a quick solution to the rising unemployment? Something to hold the fort until this so-called recovery in the world economy happens?
All seems a bit unstable to me, you can’t lose ALL the jobs, can you?
Have you seen inflation around at the moment?