It occurs to me in looking at the revised payroll numbers that each month's revision creates the illusion of a bottom having occurred in that month, since the revisions to past months are almost always below the reported number of the most recent month. But it is widely accepted that the employment bottom will lag other indicators, since investments in labor will be among the last actions business owners take.
On revisions, episode II
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