Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii

Anyone catch how they do the numbers?

A unit in treasury randomly calls 60,000 households and does a survey. They take the data, play with it, massage it, oil it up and pass it to bureau of statistics... I'm not saying the numbers are fudged but...apparently the only straight ones are the number crunchers in (BOS) who it is claimed are data slaves. But in every other step, somebody can play, from treasury to the office where report is printed. thats why, apparently numbers have been up/down/corrected/up/corrected/down all year long....so they say.

Im with DWB. We'll all probably have 2 jobs on Nov 2nd and no jobs on Nov 4th.