Last week we cautioned you to be skeptical of the weekly jobless claims numbers. They didnโ€™t include quarterly claims from California, the nationโ€™s most populous state, and therefore looked like they had improved much more than they had in reality. This week that theory was proven correct, as last weekโ€™s numbers were revised upward, and todayโ€™s reported claims were the highest in 13 weeks.