The unemployment rate, which has repeatedly surprised economists with the speed of its descent, did so again: it fell to 8.3%, a three-year low, from 8.5%.
And as a result, unemployment, as I leave office, unemployment down to lows not seen since I was about 10 years old and bouncing around on a space hopper, my friends.
Of course the ocean's deepest trenches are much lower than this but what we're talking about is the lowest point on land and the Antarctic trough apparently has no ocean water.