Jobs report coming out in half an hour. As always I hope for a horrible measurement of reality, which is not the same as hoping for a horrible reality. It's the only hope that lawmakers can be prodded to do something, anything. Obviously what I most hope for is an awesome reality, that I'm wrong about everything, that Free Market Fairy and Confidence Fairy have wed and birthed a trillion jobs and everybody will get rich. But if that isn't actually happening, then maybe somebody should do something. There isn't much time left between now and November 2012 (not to say that's the prime issue for me), and job growth will have to be explosive between now and then to get the unemployment rate down at all.
twitter machine tells me Obama is going to speak about jobs at 11am. They already have the numbers...
