Tomorrow it's Thursday and time for another weekly report on initial claims for unemployment. In absolute terms the numbers are likely to be grim. Economists project that tomorrow's report will show another 1.8 million workers have filed new claims for unemployment. But that would be down from 2.1 million in the prior week. Which itself […]


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