Friday Fish Wrap: July 9, 2010

Finally, here’s some good news:

Jobs were created at five times the rate predicted by economists.

93,200 jobs created in June, 2010 alone.

Unemployment rates in spring 2010 fell from 8.1 to 7.9 percent.

Home prices rose on average 0.3 in May, 2010.

In fact, home prices could rise an average of 6.8 percent in 2010.

What? Not happening where you live?

No, it’s in that quiet bastion of Socialism to our north, Canada. You know, that place where the banks are still strong - because they were so well regulated and the whole country hadn’t succumbed to a frenzy of Ayn Rand-ism.

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