DavidDvorkin
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Thu Aug-31-06 10:40 PM
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It sees all, it knows all, it tells all. More than the official story, anyway. http://www.dvorkin.com/essays/sbobu.html
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magellan
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Thu Aug-31-06 11:19 PM
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1. I'm sold on the SBOBU Index |
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At least it has some basis in quantifiable data, unlike the government's numbers, which I think they pull from the same place Bush** keeps his head.
I also enjoyed DD vs GWB. :rofl:
Thanks, David, and I hope you're gainfully re-employed now. Bookmarked (to check back on the Index) and recommended.
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DavidDvorkin
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Thu Aug-31-06 11:33 PM
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My ISP will provide the totals for August at midnight tonight.
I don't know when the government posts its official monthly numbers. The BLS site currently only goes through July.
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Fri Sep-01-06 07:16 PM
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3. I added the August numbers |
magellan
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Fri Sep-01-06 07:41 PM
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And the gov says the job numbers were up last month. I heard it today, 128,000 jobs added.
Are you rigging your SBOBU Index? J'accuse, j'accuse!! lol
BTW, the end of the Index, where the government numbers vs. SBOBU's repeatedly cross, is scary. If that were instead a graph of waves coming off the African west coast, it couldn't be grimmer.
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Fri Sep-01-06 08:23 PM
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Well, I suppose I can, but in this case, I won't.
The August numbers were artificially boosted because I posted about that page here on DU yesterday, so there were a fair number of hits that wouldn't have occurred otherwise. But those weren't that big a percentage, and I think it would have shown an increase, or at least have stayed the same, even without those.
Whereas the government's numbers are pure bullshit.
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