Investors who aspire to superior performance have to live with this reality. Unconventional behavior is the only road to superior investment results, but it isn’t for everyone. In addition to superior skill, successful investing requires the ability to look wrong for a while and survive some mistakes. Thus each person has to assess whether he’s temperamentally equipped to do these things and whether his circumstances – in terms of employers, clients and the impact of other people’s opinions – will allow it . . . when the chips are down and the early going makes him look wrong, as it invariably will. Not everyone can answer these questions in the affirmative. It’s those who believe they can that should take a chance on being great.

http://www.oaktreecapital.com/memo.aspx

Also another look at the unemployment numbers form my good friend Bill Rafter at Matinvestdecisions.com:

http://www.mathinvestdecisions.com/Misleading_article_on_employment.doc