Tate423...

The Kuwaitis fudged their nums. BFD.

Every corp. in the U.S. does the same damn thing. EIA does the same damn thing. Congress approves a bogus budget every year. Same damn thing. Inflation numbers exclude energy and food. Same damn thing.

Why get excited?

All of that is the problem...but I see what you mean.  It's my youth getting the better of me.
but all the fudgeing of the numbers is going to turn around and bite us in our collective rear ends.
It was explained to me as "managing the news".