This Blog is Updated Less Than Analysts Expect

"The US lost another 345,000 jobs in May, the Labor Dept. reports, far fewer than analysts expected."

What analysts and why do we care? Why do we always act like "fewer than analysts expected" means life is wonderful? Are these the same analysts who said the housing market would never fall apart? The same ones who swore that outsourcing was "good” for the economy?

Instead of trusting these "analysts," we probably ought to be lining them up against the wall. I can see the headline now: "Today, some analysts were shot, but they lost less blood than analysts had expected. However, they were still dead."