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| Subject: Retarded OZschwitz 'economist' claims ending mining tax will damage jobs - I know, ya just wanna shoot the damn socialist Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:59 pm | |
| Don't be misled by last week's better-than-expected figures for employment in February. If you peer through the statistical haze you see the problem is the reverse: employment is weaker than you'd expect. Follow that through and it takes you to - of all things - the mining tax.
The job figures were better than expected for two quite silly reasons.
First, because economists are hopeless at predicting month-to-month changes in employment and unemployment. Their guesses are wrong most months.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/ending-mining-tax-will-damage-jobs-20140316-34vh1.html#ixzz2wAKIJb6A |
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