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Wiz Imp

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19. Extremely weak & misleading explanation.

Wed Feb 11, 2026, 11:08 AM

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They should have just said there was a problem with the birth-death model and left it at that. When to explain the issue with the birth-death model, it makes no sense.

The reason is a surge in new business formation.

Census Bureau data show that before 2020, Americans were filing about 300,000 new business applications a month. The number was steady for years. Then the pandemic hit. Since then filings have averaged more than 400,000 a month. Some months have been higher. People want to work from home. More are willing to try entrepreneurship. New tools, including AI, make it easier to start.

If they're significantly underestimating new business formation wouldn't that likely mean underestimating job creation?? Yet jobs were overestimated.

They should have just stuck with their last sentence.

What’s for sure is the past two years of record revisions show the birth-death model isn’t capturing the jobs picture as well as it once did.

And blaming job revisions entirely on the birth/death model is ridiculous. A significant factor in the revision is an inaccuracy in the estimates due to extremely poor response rates to the survey.

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