95 million Americans not in the labor force: The army of non-workers in the United States.

What can we do about those not in the labor force?  A large portion are retired but many are retired and are living day to day.  The new retirement model is working until you die.  95 million Americans are not in the labor force and not a peep is uttered about this in the mainstream press.

Why this Job Market is Still Terrible: The Politically Incorrect Numbers Everyone is Hushing up

by Wolf Richter • August 5, 2016

On average, 205,300 jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth and not allow the unemployment situation to get worse.

It explains the dichotomy: Economists, officials, politicians, and central bankers point at the millions of jobs created since the Great Recession and at the official unemployment rate which has dropped to acceptable levels, while millions of individuals are mad as hell because they’ve not made it into the group of lucky ones, and they’re seeing a job market that is only slightly better – on a per-capita basis – than it was in April 2010.

Maybe the "smart money" knows the real numbers are now so far from the central planners' rigged statistics that the carefully constructed narrative of "recovery" is doomed to an unwelcome intrusion of reality.

Perhaps they are betting on the collapse of confidence in rigged numbers and false media narratives about the strength of the "recovery." Perhaps they have access to the real numbers, and they are betting that the gap between reality and the central planners' rigged numbers is now so wide that a collapse of confidence in BS is baked in, regardless of how the mainstream media spins the resulting implosion. 

It wouldn't surprise me if stocks hit a few more new highs and then cratered. Maybe the "smart money" knows that the real numbers are now so far from the central planners' rigged statistics that the carefully constructed narrative of "recovery" is doomed to an unwelcome intrusion of reality.

DYI