I ran into this little article, have fun (unemployment, Obama, government)

[newonecoming]

CPI Number Reported INTENTIONALLY INCORRECT? - The Market Ticker (http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1984-CPI-Number-Reported-INTENTIONALLY-INCORRECT.html - broken link)

They've been making numbers up It is easy to have a recovery if you just push the numbers raound a bit. At least on paper.

[WillysB]

Yeah, it's just like revisionist history on the fly...

White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs

An inconvenient truth, at least for the Obama Administration, is that once upon a time, in their January 2009 Romer/Bernstein Report they told America that without their stimulus there would be 133.9 million jobs. That’s right, in order to make it look like their stimulus has “created or saved” 2.8 million jobs, the Obama Administration first had to whack 7 million jobs from their previous estimates.

[BestintheWest]

I guess I should be surprised, but I am not, just shake my head in disbelief.

[newonecoming]

Originally Posted by WillysB

Yeah, it's just like revisionist history on the fly...

White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs

And I was given a hard time over (Is it 1984?). With computer data you can just reprint what you don't like.

Originally Posted by aliveandwellinSA

I guess I should be surprised, but I am not, just shake my head in disbelief.

They did the same thing with the unemployment nybers.