* Disappointing non-farm payroll report.
* Official unemployment rate drop applauded. 9.8 to 9.4% This is only because 250,000,000 people left official workforce — i.e. aren’t collect unemployment benefits.
* Dollar down against most currencies. Euro concerns probably kept it from really getting clobbered.
* Ben Bernanke said number confirm economy is growing, except without jobs.
* “The reason it’s jobless, is because it’s not a recovery. . . . It’s just printing money and spending it.”
* NY Times article equates Republicans’ reading of the Consitution with racism, ignoring the Constitution with “interpreting” the Constitution. Author claims Legislature should ignore Constitution and only Judicial branch should worry about it.