I think the employment report for April will be better than expected.

In fact, it could be much better than the experts are anticipating.

As they say with predictions, go bold or go bald. (And if nobody has ever said that before, put me down as the first.)

If I’m right, this could cause an enormous amount of confusion among those who make a living predicting such things and those who hope to get elected based on what the US economy is doing.

Let’s put some numbers on this.

In March, the US economy added 215,000 new jobs. That was OK growth but nothing that’ll cause the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again anytime soon — especially since the nation’s economy barely grew in the first three months of 2016.

Wall Street believes roughly 207,000 US jobs were created in April.

For those who bet (which I’m not cool or rich enough to do), I’d suggest putting your money on the numbers being better than expected. In fact, I’d wager that the employment report due out this Friday at 8:30 a.m. will show many more than 207,000 jobs.

And I’m sticking with my bold (or stupid) prediction despite the ADP Research Institute on Wednesday reporting the private sector added just 150,000 new jobs in April.

The good folks at ADP don’t measure the same thing that the government does. Its number is probably much more in line with what the economy is really doing, minus Washington’s statistical magic.

So I’m sticking with my call. This is where you get to say “Ooh” and “Ahh.”

Here’s why I think I’m right.

In the first place, this is spring. Companies that are seasonal in nature and reliant on Mother Nature usually create jobs in the spring.

Because the Labor Department knows that companies come into business during springtime, it mixes lots of phantom jobs into its April and May reports.

These phantom jobs, which I have written about numerous times, reflect jobs that Labor believes were created — but can’t prove exist.

The government, in fact, thinks that so many companies are born in spring that it will add around 213,000 phantom jobs to its totals this April.

Approximately the same figure will be added to the May numbers.

We go through this every spring. Jobs pop higher. The pundits who don’t understand these Labor adjustments proclaim that the economy is improving.

But there is never such an inelastic relationship between the economy and the jobs number because of Labor’s phantom jobs addition — that makes the jobs number misleading.

Even the New York Times is now figuring out Labor’s numbers are misleading.

Then again, April’s numbers could be very disappointing.

Most of the country had a mild winter, and that could have caused jobs that usually appear in the spring to have blossomed early.

So while Labor does indeed pour a lot of “hamburger helper” into its actual jobs totals, the number of actual jobs could be lower than forecast — because April jobs were actually created in February and March, boosting those months’ numbers.

There’s no telling how the stock market will react to the jobs report — but this much is certain: If I’m correct and the jobs number is better than expected, the experts will quickly decide that the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates in June.

The Fed keeps threatening to raise rates but so far doesn’t have a good excuse.

With the presidential election coming up, the rate-hikers at the Fed are running out of time to act. Friday could give the Fed the excuse it needs.

The nation’s unemployment rate, meanwhile, is expected to stay at 5 percent.

I have no prediction on this, but I do have a comment: The jobless rate is a useless, misleading statistic that isn’t even worth the two sentences I’m wasting on it.

Love may be blind, but people have their eyes wide open in regard to dating those with bad credit.

A survey by Bankrate.com reports that 40 percent of unmarried people said knowing someone’s credit score would affect their interest in dating that person.

Not surprisingly, of those surveyed with household incomes of $75,000 or more, half say they’d like to know their date’s credit score.

And 42 percent of millennials and 47 percent of college grads also believe the first question out of your mouth before going on that initial date should be, “What’s your FICO score?” and not, “What’s your sign?”

Republicans (at 16 percent) say a credit score would have a major impact on whether they would date someone — compared with 13 percent of Democrats and 10 percent of Independents.

If a new report from the European Central Bank is correct, there’s a 1-in-3 shot that someone will know US economic reports ahead of time.

The ECB published a paper earlier this week saying “seven out of 21 market-moving announcements show evidence of substantial trading before the official release time.” The report monitored US stock futures and Treasury markets.

“Prices begin to move in the ‘correct’ direction about 30 minutes before the release time,” the ECB report added.

The report said information was typically leaked about the Consumer Confidence Index, existing home sales, preliminary gross domestic product, industrial production, ISM Manufacturing Index, ISM Non Manufacturing Index and pending home sales.