Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
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........... Recipient of the 2010 MacDougal Irving Prize for Truth in Market Manipulation ...........
March 11, 2015
Those Employment Numbers again
To us, statistics coming out of Washington stopped being reliable sometime around the budget-busting Carter years, and we've not used them since, digging into data from private sources instead - as well as empirical stuff. It comes as no shock here then to find that number-crunchers beholden to the White House have been accused of cooking the employment books with workers reclassified as independent contractors. If true, omitting the impact of today's crude prices on the oil patch allowed the Destructionist-in-Chief to crow that our body politic is doing just peachy under rigged-market socialism when it's clearly bleeding from every budgetary pore once you poke under the Fed's T-bond bandaging a little bit. Here's the Seeking Alpha link:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2991306-the-hidden-u-s-recession?ifp=0
So what's going on here? Your guess is as good as ours. Odds are, though, a complicit media ain't gonna be taking it up.