Comment on Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, blowing away forecasts
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
How many of them during a revision in five months will be found to have not actually existed? Recently, they just found 800,000 jobs. They thought existed and didn’t.
sj_zero 2 weeks ago
The establishment media is destroying itself by breathlessly cheerleading every "beat" that turns out not to be true and not in any way mentioning that the numbers have been revised so heavily all year.
If they're going to mindlessly read press releases, you might as well just read the press releases.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Exactly. And with how the government turns out to be with information in general, it’s a pretty good idea to take anything they say with a massive dose of salt.