BLS Scraps October Jobs Report on Lack of Household Data

How much of a surprise is this. We knew that there was going to be parts of the report that were missing. But to just wholesale cancel the October jobs report, it is a little bit of a surprise, especially because businesses are able to keep their records, how many folks were on their payrolls.And so when you ask businesses how many people were on your payrolls for the week that included the 12th of the month, they should have paystubs, they should have our records. It should be relatively easy to retrieve t ...