229,000 Freshly Unemployed Take the Global Stage: A Darkly Comic Tour of Jobless Claims from Ohio to Osaka
The Bureaucratic Ballet of the Unemployed A dispatch from the border where statistics and human despair do an awkward tango By the time America’s Department of Labor released its weekly “initial jobless claims” number last Thursday, the figure had already been strip-mined, polished, and weaponised by three continents’ worth of traders before the coffee in…