1) Is the DLS staffer who tweeted about ‘Nazis in Indiana’ still working there?
2) ‘Seasonal adjustments’ are a charter to fiddle the numbers since a) we are always in one of four seasons and b) if they adjust in all four seasons, there is no baseline for the adjustment.
Still, if they think it’s a valid practice I will seasonally adjust my tax payments in my favor.
You do realize that the net effect of seasonal adjustments spread across the whole year is zero, right?
They add some jobs in parts of the year when hiring is always weak and subtract the same numbers in parts when hiring is always strong in order to smooth out the sine wave.
This allows observers to see what is happening in the numbers aside from those seasonal swings.