There's an old joke about the professor who always gave the same questions on exams. When asked about this he said "The questions are always the same; it's only the answers that change." My question: What are the questions? Cheers, John Charles Pool PS: For starters the unemployment rate hit 4.9 percent the lowest since 1973. Rueters quoted a broker as saying "all the news was good expept the unemployment rate." That left only 6.7 million "idle workers." What is the correct number of idle workers?