Deflation Rising

[Seos]

2) There are not 400,000 people unemployed, there are 400,000 people signing on, very very different. About 70k-80k people who sign on are not unemployed, as a close examination of the Live Register and QNHS stas will show. So assuming 330k actual unemployed, that means an unemployment rate of about 14%, a good bit below the 1980s figures of up to 19%.

Correct about the live register but the CSO actually does what you want to do re unemployment in this document:
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublicatio...rrent/lreg.pdf

The standardised unemployment rate in May was 11.8%. This compares
with 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2008, the latest seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate from the Quarterly National Household Survey. See
table 3 and background notes.

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My favorite newspeak these days is :

"The rate of decrease/decrease/fall/decline has slowed"