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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA "misclassification error" means the "overall unemployment rate would be 16.3% for May.
This is deliberate manipulation by Trump's goon, it was to try and spin something good for him. They always lie. it was a fake number
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A "misclassification error" means the "overall unemployment rate would be 16.3% for May. (Original Post)
sunonmars
Jun 2020
OP
They've broken my trust of any numbers on anything coming out of the Federal Govt...
Hugin
Jun 2020
#6
Yup, it was deliberate bare faced lie, he wanted to go out on media with something positive to try
sunonmars
Jun 2020
#8
+1. A lifelong con man is in control of the U.S. government and everything it does
dalton99a
Jun 2020
#9
This is the ***THIRD MONTH*** they made that same damn error. No one believes its an error now
uponit7771
Jun 2020
#10
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. It was a lie . .
kentuck
(111,110 posts)2. And if they will lie about something this small...
..they will lie about something much larger.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)3. There could be criminal charges here...market manipulation......
rzemanfl
(29,569 posts)4. Drumpf has been manipulating the market for his pals since he took office. n/t
duforsure
(11,885 posts)5. Nothing from trump ,especially numbers, can be believed as the truth.
These are manipulated to make him look good, but the American people don't believe him. The media are complicit for airing him claiming this, and are promoting propaganda, not news, or the truth .
Hugin
(33,207 posts)6. They've broken my trust of any numbers on anything coming out of the Federal Govt...
Guidelines... PSAs...
Wall Street, too. Although, I was always skeptical of those word salads.
Probably, for life.
Sadly.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)7. Error, my ass
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)8. Yup, it was deliberate bare faced lie, he wanted to go out on media with something positive to try
and change the story and yet again it fell apart within a few hours.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)9. +1. A lifelong con man is in control of the U.S. government and everything it does
Of course he is using his Sharpie
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)10. This is the ***THIRD MONTH*** they made that same damn error. No one believes its an error now