To answer your question, "I don't know." Which isn't really an answer.

Whenever BLS puts that on its schedule, the news will show up here.

And good morning.

Could finally be the one-two punch that actually describes the economy under this shithead.

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The official response is "at some point." Maybe we'll get a double whammy on the first Friday in December. All I know is what I read in the paper.

The Establishment Survey produces the headline non-farm payroll jobs numbers, so we'll see that, just way delayed.

There will never be an October unemployment rate number published since Household Survey data was never collected, and it has long been decided not to try to collect that retroactively..

Even before Macri took office in December 2015, it was clear that his shock devaluation would cause a jump in unemployment - so what's a Panama Papers kleptocrat to do?

He simply declared a "statistical emergency" - and quashed the IV 2015 and the I 2016 jobless numbers (though jobs data are published monthly in Argentina, unemployment data are published quarterly).

Once his honeymoon wore off, mid-year, Congress finally demanded that employment and GDP data be published - and sure enough, they showed that unemployment jumped from 5.9% in III 2015, to 9.3% in II 2016.

And the two missing quarters? His statistics director (a Trump-style misogynist cabrón, who later died of a massive heart attack) had them destroyed (a felony) - but officials from the previous administration stated that the IV 2015 data would've read 5.4%.

These days, of course, most Argentines earn so little that the point is almost moot (the minimum wage has lost 60% of its real value since then - and many of the "employed" have but odd jobs and delivery gigs for a few hours a week, earning "African" wages as they're called down there).

That's Trump's economic model.