Convenient Jobless Numbers, Euro Bond Plan Response, Auto Unions in Decline: P.M. Links

• Jobless claims are down, which is quite convenient information on the day President Barack Obama will give a big speech arguing for a second term.

• Stock markets are responding positively to the European Central Bank's bond-buying plan.
• Auto unions may be a dominant force at the Democratic National Convention but elsewhere, not so much.
• A mother and her three daughters are dead in Missouri in what authorities suspect is a murder-suicide.
• California's controller has noticed that school district executives get huge raises soon before they retire, jacking up their pensions.
• A majority of LGBT students say they feel unsafe at school. Maybe if there were more competition for students, administrators would feel more pressure to crack down on inappropriate behavior?
• Hacked e-mails allegedly from security firm Stratfor seem to indicate that the FBI knew about the NYPD's surveillance tactics and knew that they're illegal. Stratfor says some of the e-mails may be forged or altered.

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