Hello Gadabout1,

You seem a lot more convinced this is pure good news than do the newspaper editors!

If you had been paying attention to this page over the past few hours, you would have noticed that the reporting and emphasis have actually zig zagged back and forth, in editorial modifications, from this as good news (many months in a row of job increases) to this as bad news (much worse job figure than previous month, low number created compared to previous months, bad recent trajectory) and then back again to this as good news.

What that reporting oscillation means is that the editors recognize that the glass is half full and half empty with the recent month's numbers, and viewers (and editors, in a vacillating fashion hour-to-hour) are able to emphasize either side.

You are welcome, nonetheless, to pretend it is a binary matter in a simple binary world, if you prefer.