Damned Lies and Statistics?
US Dept. of Commerce, Washington
Yesterday, as the US dollar fell to new record lows and oil and gold prices surged to new highs, the US Commerce Department delivered meaningless government data that managed to report the lowest US inflation in the last half century. Wall Street was hardly fooled.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by 390 points, …
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