Everyone has heard the expression “numbers lie.” As a former CPA with 25 years in the business community, I emphatically believe in the truth of that statement. The current intentionally misleading unemployment numbers are a particularly damaging lie. First, unemployment can never be zero because of a phenomenon the economists call “frictional unemployment.” In simple terms, that means that because businesses are always moving, opening and closing and changing direction, there are always people temporarily out of the workforce.