Quote from: stompix on Today at 08:26:36 AM

And if you're from Europe you can't possibly deny that everyone is hiring and nobody has enough workers right now, it's not a crisis where people can't find a job, everywhere you go there is a job opening.

The unemployment rate in Spain is around 12.5%, which for Spain is not bad, but it must be taken into account that the current government made a reform on some type of job contracts (fijos discontinuos) that allows some people to be counted as working for the whole year when in reality they only work for a few months.

Nor is someone who is unemployed and does some training useless courses counted as unemployed, and there are other examples like this that show that the unemployment rate has a lot of statistical make-up. I'm not just saying in the case of this government. Statistical make-up to mask the pathetic state of the labour market in Spain has been used by various governments over the years.

That's why, among other things, I say that I don't trust statistics.

Quote from: stompix on Today at 08:26:36 AM

You're from Spain, are your beaches empty? Are the hotels empty? Or do you see surging numbers of tourists partying all night?

We are back to the same thing. Isolated data does not indicate anything. Hotel occupancy as a % is an indication, but it is no good having a hotel occupancy rate similar to the average if spending per tourist is significantly lower, to give an example. You can go to the beach without spending a euro, you take the car, a towel and a cooler for drinks and food. So full beaches are not a reliable indicator of good economic activity either.