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Today's jobs and unemployment report was actually more positive than the headlines reported by the regular media. The headline change in the establishment survey was +172,000 jobs. However, you need to adjust this number by subtracting -158,000 jobs double counted in the birth/death adjustment and then adding +93,000 retroactive increase in jobs reported for the prior two months. That nets to +107,000 jobs which is nothing special in a country with a growing population.

However, if you go to Table A-9 for the raw data (meaning not seasonally adjusted) on the number of people who actually held jobs, the number of people who reported holding full-time jobs soared +452,000! From this you need to subtract -336,000 decline in people who only held one part time job and -38,000 decline in people who held two or more jobs. But you also have a gain of +155,000 in self-employed people.

So, the good news is that an unusually large number of people gave up part-time jobs to take full-time jobs. That's a good sign.

To read the Bureau of Labor Statistics news release today, go to https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm. From there you can scroll to the bottom to click on Table A-9 or do a search for birth/death adjustment.

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Precious metals prices sank again earlier today, but have now mostly recovered. Gold dipped as low at $4,367.50, silver dropped to $71.84, platinum bottomed out at $1,874.00, and palladium fell to $1,340.00.

As of a couple minutes ago, here were the bid and ask spot prices at which Liberty Coin Service was calculating its buy and sell prices for physical precious metals:

Gold: bid spot price $4,502.00/ask spot price $4,507.00
Silver: $75.36/$75.76
Platinum: $1,920.00/$1,930.00
Palladium: $1,363.00/$1,383.00

Gold and silver are now both higher than yesterday's COMEX close. Since precious metals prices can and do change 20,000 times each day (every time a commodity futures contract is traded) you can go to Liberty Coin Service's website to check our current bid and ask spot prices at

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