Things Aren't Getting Less Worse But They're Getting Worse Less Quickly

The data give us reason to hope that jobs are coming back, writes Daniel Gross at The Big Money.

The economy only lost 190,000 jobs in October, a much smaller loss than the six hundred thousand or so the U.S. was shedding each month back in early 2009; the BLS revised down the job-loss figures for August and September (so they were less awful than we thought), and first-time unemployment claims are falling.

Too, productivity rose by 9.5