Well-known management guru and CEO, Jack Welch, was on CNBC to defend his call on today's job numbers. He thinks that the data are fudged and too good to be true
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The idea that a handful of career bureaucrats, their jobs secure no matter who is in the White House, would manipulate the unemployment data to help President Obama, is ludicrous. Jack Welch knows it, too; when I called him Friday afternoon, he quickly backpedaled, " I'm not accusing anybody of anything," he protested.
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The idea that a handful of career bureaucrats, their jobs secure no matter who is in the White House, would manipulate the unemployment data to help President Obama, is ludicrous. Jack Welch knows it, too; when I called him Friday afternoon, he quickly backpedaled, " I'm not accusing anybody of anything," he protested.