Unemployment rates are severely under tracked.

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Salnax said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Same as GDP, inflation, crime, education, health, and just about any statistic reported by Government agencies.

Which is why I believe we should have an independent, internationally funded institution dedicated to reporting statistics across the globe - perhaps a function of the UN - so that we can get figures that we can believe, without any political twists.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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Oh, were you being serious?

Yeah... everything but the UN was a good idea.  I mean one only needs to look at the IPCC board to see how far away that gets from being independent from political means.