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by rvz 168 days ago
Very likely which is the point of the ghost jobs and gives the illusion that the OP is falling for. Companies (especially publicly traded ones) do not want analysts at banks or hedge funds using their careers page as a good / bad signal.

Therefore, it is cope.

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Fake job listings, possibly, but doubt. Fake low unemployment too?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

OK, how about employment, if the jobs are fake, this should be down:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

"Cope" is ignoring every stat that disagree with what you want to believe. We aren't in a great economy, It looks like it is flattening, but not bad, not shrinking, and there is an abundance of jobs.