"5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Goodbye, Columbia" by Gregg Easterbrook
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March, same deal. another 750,000 jobs gone. okay, now watch what happens. in april of 2009, the job losses begin to taper off. in may, the news gets a little better. the fewest number of jobs lost in nine months. june, that trend reverses a bit, about 500,000 jobs lost that month. then july hits, and we're going in the right direction here, 346,000 jobs lost that month. august, about 200,000 jobs lost. this is what we've been calling the bikini graph. although i profess not to see it, the staff of "the rachel maddow show" insists to me that when much of america looks at this graph, what they ...