[unixfox]

Just wait till around September. The economy will be EXPLODING and the rate will said to be at 6.9%

Mark my word.

[SueRae]

Of course they will..especially if the Fed times the QE3 to goose things for the loser-in-chief. I still believe the market makers/hedgies timed the tanking of the market just in time to get him elected. Now that he’s pissed them off, it may go the other way...but ther are a lot of bs’ers on his side with the media..and Treasury. He stll has a lot of tools at his disposal to sway the dense voters.

[TomGuy]

Just wait till around September. The economy will be EXPLODING and the rate will said to be at 6.9%

I have been saying that for months. And it isn't that far-fetched. They can just manipulate the numbers down 0.2 to 0.4 per month and they will be within reach of the magic 6.9%.

All they need is a compliant BLS to manipulate the numbers and a compliant MSM to report the good news.

And, if they can keep the real inflation numbers seemingly under control*, they can avoid the trifecta Carter was hit with: Joblessness, economic disaster, and inflation.

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*There has already be so much product shrinkage that stores have had to purchase new shopping carts with narrower slats to keep the shrunk products from falling through onto the floors. :)

[Truth29]

"Just wait till around September. The economy will be EXPLODING and the rate will said to be at 6.9%

Mark my word."

You are correct. Control the media and the government information releases and you control the message. The Ministry of Truth is in charge.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Only on paper. They will lie. That is why they are late with the govt. figures by one full week and are also afraid of internal leaks of the bad numbers before they have a chance to re-doe them and re-rig them on director orders from the Assistants to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House, as well as Treasury. Oh yeah, it will all look good on paper with the media covering it up and not digging, all through the Fall, but in talking with people in your neighborhood or family, you will nothing has changed for the good. With Mussolini reelected, watch for the numbers to be revised back to reality ASAP, and pleas that we we need another four years of Obama to fix them over this “long process”, and then another four years for VP Biden to continue the effort. They lied through their teeth about “Hope” and “Change” eight years ago.