Given the employment report that

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2. First of all the report was characterized as

"better than expected" and not by me. You can drop your TDS crap since this is an administration that has shown they will and have lied about literally anything and everything. You insistence that the point of cooking numbers is to make them look "good" is pure nonsense since it is also done to make things "not as bad" as any examination of shenanigans with accounting or government "reports" has shown over the many, many decades.

As I said it is not just the numbers but the verbiage and combined with other reporting regarding job cuts, layoffs and reductions in manufacturing you can spin your tale all you like but the presentation of the report and the characterization by the government don't square with what is seen. But some people who accept this sort of thing probably also believe that Saudi Arabia has invested 21 trillion dollars in the US in just the last few months as claimed by Crumb the 1st.