[allendale]

Anyone who believes numbers, statistics or the pronouncements from Federal agencies controlled by Obama’s commissars for the past seven years is a fool.

[Falcon4.0]

"Figures often beguile me," he wrote,
"particularly when I have the arranging of them myself;
in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force:
'There are three kinds of lies:
lies,
damned lies,
and statistics.'"

Mark Twain

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yet more evidence that the U.S. Government of 2016 is uncomfortably and increasingly resembling the old Soviet governments.

[Crucial]

I read that the Fed recently held an “emergency meeting”.

[kearnyirish2]

You’re right; anyone with eyes (especially in the northeast) can see it is nonsense. Here in NJ, the closure of several casinos over the past few years was a real indicator - the good times are gone. While the media attempted to gloss over it at the time, they are now reporting that Atlantic City still needs a sugar daddy to pay their bills...