That was the headline for the Financial Times article. They still use the German national measure of unemployment rather than the OECD standardized rate (again, they get the BBC out, writing for an international audience), but at least they understand the concept of seasonal adjustments. Okay, that's all for today on German unemployment.
--Dean Baker
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