DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie Okay...sorry...I'm missing something here.... Retail sales actually FELL 1.4 BILLION (dollars) ...as in, people ACTUALLY purchased 1.4 BILLION fewer dollars of goods than the month preceding, yet "seasonally adjusted" sales rose. Sorry....(I'm just trying to grasp this)....sales in FACT fell...they were in real dollars, less than the previous month....but....they also rose. So, is that kinda like "The Consumer Price Index fell this month, less housing, energy and grains"? (Like, all the shit that pretty everyone much buys?). Is that kind of like...."Clinton ran a surplus, but paid off the debt, even as it in fact, rose, in some cases by ungodly amounts?" (I'm sorry...I was deemed slow in the 7th grade....can you help me on this....because I now understand how Clinton paid off the debt (Taz was quite clear on this)....he did it with "surpluses" but I guess I don't understand how when sales in mathematical reality....fall.....sales actually increased. (I skipped "New Math"....is that what this is?). Seasonal Adjustments:quote:
Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that attempts to measure and remove the influences of predictable seasonal patterns to reveal how employment and unemployment change from month to month. Over the course of a year, the size of the labor force, the levels of employment and unemployment, and other measures of labor market activity undergo fluctuations due to seasonal events including changes in weather, harvests, major holidays, and school schedules. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by seasonally adjusting the statistics from month to month. These seasonal adjustments make it easier to observe the cyclical, underlying trend, and other nonseasonal movements in the series. This was pulled from the BLS website, but it's the same idea here.
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What I support: - A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
- Personal Responsibility
- Help for the truly needy
- Limited Government
- Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
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