onlooker wrote:Thought I would give a heads up to those who wish to follow economic statistics of the US. As many of us know, these stats are somewhat what did Bush say "fuzzy math" haha. So for the real accurate stats go to this site. Notice how categories like Inflation and Unemployment are skewered to seem better than they actually are. Here is link:
http://www.shadowstats.com/
Funny how everything is always worse than reported. zerohedge would be proud.
onlooker wrote:Funny how everything is always worse than reported. zerohedge would be proud.
Funny how everything reported always seems to be better than it really is.
Outcast_Searcher wrote: We're all doomed short term, except that every month, year after year, when the next month rolls along, we're not.
onlooker wrote: Specifically, in regards to my original post I believe the stats on the site I linked and not official govt. stats as in my opinion governments and corporations are together interested in distorting the severity of the problems we face lest the mass populace finally reach a breaking point based on real problems or anxiety about the future which will ignite a revolutionary type fervor in them.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Because in the doomer world everything is a conspiracy and the MSM lies about everything.
copious.abundance wrote:The reason why conspiracy sites like Shadowstats can be proven to be wrong, and government figures can be more or less proven to be (generally) correct, is that there are plenty of non-government data sources one can use to corroborate the government stats.
For instance---the current US unemployment rate doesn't include millions of people the BLS categorizes as "discouraged workers"
copious.abundance wrote:What's really funny/stupid is, people actually pay money to Shadowstats to get the same info they can get from the BLS for free!
copious.abundance wrote:No, it is not the "old" methods, it is Shadowstats own made-up, fictitous versions of the stats that they claim are the "old" methods to convince gloom-and-doom types to shell out $$ so they can hear what they want to hear.
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