[Kickass Conservative]

No, it's just a “seasonal” adjustment.

I never knew Obama was a season though.

[whitedog57]

There are seasonal adjustments. But construction spending is down and Eurozone manufacturing blew too.

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/sluggish-summer-u-s-ism-factory-index-and-construction-fall-eurozone-manufacturing-continues-to-contract/