Will Ferrell Is Trying to Save GM and I'm Not Sure He Can Do It | Opinion On 2/14/21 at 7:00 AM EST Please, every economic writer on earth: stop telling me how the economy is recovering. If anyone has noticed, it was another rotten week on the unemployment front. Some 793,000 folks applied for unemployment benefits—and an additional 335,000 filed under the federal plan that covers the self-employed. I'll do the math for you: that's 1.13 million out-of-work Americans seeking benefits for the first time. If you think that's an okay number, consider this from the Economic Policy Institute: it's "the 47th straight week total initial (traditional) claims were greater than the worst week of the Great Recession." The weekly number before we fell off the earth a year or so ago? Around 215,000. For this edition of