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tate423 on June 22, 2006 - 1:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Why isn't the WORLD pissed?  I get WHY it was done back in the 80's.  I get the history part, but why didn't they go back then and revise the numbers.  Instead as we're close they revise them, but why isn't everyone screaming foul?  I mean if ONE middle eastern country, and an OPEC member, fudged THEIR numbers based on the quota system the other countries did the same thing started by SA.  WTF?  
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Will on June 22, 2006 - 1:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
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?

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tate423 on June 22, 2006 - 1:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
All of that is the problem...but I see what you mean.  It's my youth getting the better of me.
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TrueKaiser on June 22, 2006 - 8:18pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
but all the fudgeing of the numbers is going to turn around and bite us in our collective rear ends.
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Will on June 22, 2006 - 8:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It was explained to me as "managing the news".
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