Worm's Eye View of the Economy

Something my boss told me...."55 percent of all people are self-employed in the United States.". I tend to believe this. I have a worm's eye view of the economy, much less an exalted view then from some marble and ivory towers. I'm self-employed. I wouldn't mind working for other people and might land a job sooner or later, but a cat's gotta eat, to quote someone who I forgot.

Doesn't look good on the resume to be self-employed to some, but I'm not going to lie about it. There's the official unemployment rate (4.4 percent to 4.6 percent) and then there's the unofficial unemployment rate (12 percent).

Two links, one the official, the other, the unofficial:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
http://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/unemploy.shtml

More later, gotta go work on a house.