“...Some time after the midterms we might find out how the books were cooked this time around.
No doubt the word has gone out far and wide that under no circumstances can an economic contraction be reported any time before November.”
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I have a difficult time accepting government statistics anymore. The bureaucracy is filled with progressives (such as Lois Lerner) who are more interested in promoting the progressive agenda and protecting DimocRATS than they are in the producing anything that is true.
They already cooked the books when they changed the formula for GDP to include R&D and benchmarks which makes it 3% higher than before these changes.