The U.S. Labor Department reported today that the U.S. economy added 162,000 nonfarm jobs last month.  So, put aside the worries that it will take a lot of similarly-strong months to make up for the eight million jobs lost since the recession began at the end of 2007 and the fact that many of the gains came from temporary and part-time jobs and other caveats too.  President Obama declared that the U.S. economy was “beginning to turn the corner.”  For the TV shopping networks, which largely turned their own corner last year, the notion that more and more of their customers will be catching up to them is very good news.  The New York Times Apr. 2, 2010