HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE THAT NUMBERS ARE MANUFACTURED FOR POLITICAL AND INSIDE TRADING PURPOSES.
BLS said +0.2% (+/-0.5%), giving a lower bound of -0.3%
Now a revised figure of -0.4% is released. I haven't yet found the BLS publication, so I don't know the margin of error in the new number.
One would be hard--pressed to invent a more ridiculous scenario than that offered by the history of such numbers.
Here's the thing: DON'T BELIEVE THE NEW -0.4% FIGURE.
It could be high, it could be low, it could be somewhere in-between. YOY figures would be more telling, if you could put any faith at all in the reporting and analysis--which you cannot.
Believe what you understand yourself, not what you are being sold. If you don't know, find out more information to make your own decision, other than that you are being led around by the nose, which is fine, until it isn't.
agip, (and I mean this in the best way), you are a fool, a dupe, a chump. You are twisting in the wind. Surely you must have some insights from your own knowledge, from your own activities, from your own economic involvement and from those you know. Your constant recitation of, and faith in the meaning of, published numbers, is frankly an embarrassment.