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Old 08-27-2009, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
You cant measure jobs saved.
I agree, you can only to a limited extent trusting information an industry gives you - "We publically said we were planning on laying off 100, but didn't because ... "

However you can use current unemployment figures within industries, and see which way the industries are heading, to predict how many of those people will be brought back to work, and if the industries are growing.

Nobody will know if it's silly or not until the last quarter comes, and we see the accuracy.

Get back to me then if you want to complain about it. This complaining about stuff that "might" happen, as if it's a done deal, is getting pretty tiresome.
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