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Lies, Damned Lies, And The Commerce Department

By Kate on May 23, 2012 9:55 AM | 15 Comments

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jcl | May 23, 2012 10:31 AM | Reply

Just think if they did that with the U.S. unemployment numbers.....

Pete E | May 23, 2012 10:42 AM | Reply

I notice that the last uptick happened at about the same point in 2009, also an election year. I wonder which will prove larger?

Patsplace | May 23, 2012 12:14 PM | Reply

You can count on the FACT that an isolated and probably orchestrated series of events in some small sector will get day in, day out coverage of the Great Empty Suit's prowess.

peterj | May 23, 2012 2:20 PM | Reply

If you look hard (harder damnit)you can see it turning around. Just watch it go up for for another 5 months to see the incredible progress.

Gord Tulk | May 23, 2012 2:49 PM | Reply

Looks like they were too optimistic during the beginning of the bear market. they have now been pretty on the mark (is this the bottom?) perhaps they will be too cautious during the recovery. In sum, the graphic is too short a timeline - it only shows the beginning of the bear and perhaps its bottom - we need to see what their estimates are like during a recovery and then the beginning of a bull market.

sasquatch | May 23, 2012 4:07 PM | Reply

Yeah well we got the same situation here in the Great White North. Civil serpents have the same DEMONcRAT/NDP mentality......other wise they would have real jobs.....

Jema54 | May 23, 2012 5:34 PM | Reply

From the shape of the graph, it looks like a 'hatchet job'; reminiscent of the 'hockey stick job' shaped graph in a similar hoax.

No imagination.

Jema54 | May 23, 2012 5:36 PM | Reply

Except I think this graph is not 'messaged'!

puddin n pie | May 23, 2012 8:13 PM | Reply

never let a "factoid" alter reality!

David C Beach | May 23, 2012 9:23 PM | Reply

The graph is upside down and inverted side to side.

David C Beach | May 23, 2012 9:23 PM | Reply

The graph is upside down and inverted side to side.

David C Beach | May 23, 2012 9:24 PM | Reply

The graph is upside down and inverted side to side.

OMMAG | May 23, 2012 10:16 PM | Reply

Say it three times and it`s like magic ...........

Actually ... I saw a hockey stick.............

tim in vermont | May 24, 2012 8:11 PM | Reply

Just a coincidence. Like flipping a coin and getting heads 100 times in a row. Happens all the time. Nobody is lying to you.

tim in vermont | May 24, 2012 8:20 PM | Reply

Actually, it is not as bad as it looks at first, nobody knew how bad it was getting when the crisis hit, and it has been pretty flat now for a while. It will never climb again to the previous level unless the revisions become biased again.

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