"It's a very weak picture".
Now, along with outside factors like oil prices, Mr. Bush's priorities are actually contributing to the weak picture for jobs.
The weak picture ought to mean that there will be no increase in US interest rates until 2012 at the earliest, according to Ian Morris, HSBC's head of US economics.
He described it as "overall, an unambiguously weak picture which only looks likely to get worse as the debt crisis continues," and predicted that euro zone gross domestic product would decline by 1 percent this year, with 2013 "likely to be much worse".
Employment grew by less than 100,000 last month, the Labor Department reported yesterday, well below the level needed to keep pace with the expansion in the labor force and presenting a weak picture of the economy in the last employment report before President Bush faces the voters in his bid for re-election.
Using a supercomputer, Saadeh, Pontzen, and colleagues look for evidence of any such patterns lurking faintly behind random variations in the CMB's temperature a process not unlike trying to pick out a weak picture through extreme static on an old-fashioned TV screen.
Gagosian Gallery has great pictures too, including a wonderful work on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, "Pirate (Untitled II)" (1981), but the show is padded out with some noticeably weaker pictures from the mid to late 1980s and, a little confusingly, even a few 1950s works.
However, the GDP data on Thursday is expected to show a weaker picture for the industrial and construction sectors.
The weaker picture came despite a fall in unemployment to 5.1%, its lowest since 2006 and a drop from 5.2% in October.
