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December Chicago PMI Revised From 68.6 To 66.8

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Remember when the Chicago PMI came at 68.6 ten short days ago, trouncing expectations of 62.5, and the highest since July 1988? Well, post-revision reality is slowly coming back to roost: the number was just revised down to 66.8. Presumably there will be no more revisions, however since these numbers now come straight from the Department of Imaginary Numbers, we wouldn't hold our breath.

 

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Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:04 | 863554 Henry Chinaski
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Dislexia? 

I see saw, when I meant was.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:29 | 863640 Eternal Student
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It's spelled Lysdexia. ;)

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:04 | 863555 Henry Chinaski
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dp

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:05 | 863557 Translational Lift
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Hahahahahahahahahahahha.............That's all I have to say.....welcome to the wonderful world of new math & make up your own numbers as it suits you....

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:05 | 863558 TruthInSunshine
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Why doesn't the U.S. Government adopt an agency called SHITT?

Statistical Hijacking & Innovative Terminology and Techniques

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:14 | 863595 lead salad
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+1

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:16 | 863603 TruthInSunshine
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Together with the BLS, it could be referred to as SHITT BLS.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:06 | 863779 Terminus C
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no, no...

BLS SHITT

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:11 | 863798 TruthInSunshine
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+ 2 SHITTS

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 14:52 | 864381 DavidC
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Presumably working alongside CRAP?

Committee for Rapid Acronym Production.

DavidC

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:06 | 863560 Joeman34
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How about this - don't release numbers until you're sure they accurate.  Too logical...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:26 | 863643 Sudden Debt
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next up are those of 1965...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:35 | 863676 Joeman34
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BS - with today's available technology, we should have no problem compiling and disseminating reliable statistics in-time to maintain relevance.  Huge, multi-billion $ businesses do it on a daily basis. 

Oh, and there we have yet another example of how the government can't begin to match the private sector in terms of efficiency and effectiveness...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:06 | 863561 Bearster
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I know, let's put the same people who lie to us every day about the economy ... in charge of more parts of the economy!  Let's give them control over who can buy and sell commodities!  Let's give them control over who can charge how much for Internet service!

Then they wouldn't have to lie about the economy, because they could *make* the economy work good!!!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:23 | 863627 Translational Lift
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They would still fuck it up............

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:07 | 863564 vote_libertaria...
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I guess this means stocks will need an extra 15 minutes before turning green.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:15 | 863598 More_sellers_th...
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Sad but true!  when will his madness end? The last sale of a stock is completley meaningless! there is no book... there are no bids...if the algo's get turned off , or god forbid go the other way... stocks will fall in perpetuity, because there is no value on holding paper with a shitty pricing mechanism! all stocks will go to unbelievably low levels..then if someone see's value they wont buy 100 shares unless they intend to buy them all and price them themselves!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:11 | 863583 Caviar Emptor
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We're not saying capitalism is perfect, it isn't :-)

To The Cloud!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:11 | 863584 101 years and c...
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where's the daily BDI update?  down another 1.6% to 1495.

 

 

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:28 | 863652 Sudden Debt
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The real question is how low will it go.

800?

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:45 | 863904 Temporalist
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Freight Rates Tumbling as 35 Miles of Ships Passes Ore Demand

"At a time when analysts anticipate record profits for the biggest mining companies and a third year of gains in commodity prices, shipping lines carrying raw materials are set for the lowest freight rates since 2002."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-10/freight-rates-poised-to-tumble-...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:14 | 863594 chinaguy
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Getting ready to BTFD!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:16 | 863604 Irelevant
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This book cooking is similar to what was going on in the communist states in the 80s. Everything was soaring, in a good way, in all statistics. This cant go on forever, and it wont. This is Enroneconomy.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:16 | 863606 Temporalist
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The Ministry of Silly Walks...not to be confused with the Department of Imaginary Numbers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:18 | 863609 Racer
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the computers just read this as revised to 99.8

BTFD

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:19 | 863615 Racer
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China is transparent compared to the Bureau of Lying S*!ts

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:25 | 863635 Oh regional Indian
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Because this shit matters not anymore.... you guys ought to see this guy.

It's OT but not really as it turned out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQc19IB6YA4

NVTS!

ORI

http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/the-practice-of-detachment/

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:30 | 863657 Caviar Emptor
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Wait was that the pre-Arizona Massacre number, or post-? 

It matters because if fringe tea baggers with social problems are targeting Dem politicians then Chicago's next

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:46 | 863719 docj
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fringe tea baggers

Prove it.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:36 | 863687 HarryWanger
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So what?? It was still a very strong number. That's like saying you thought you got 98% on an exam and it was actually 95%. Who cares? You still got an A.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:48 | 863725 More_sellers_th...
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Harry, I think the point here is that if the first number wasn't real...what caused the revision? And why should we believe the second print? Is the data real? Why don't we just make the numbers up? Who checks the data? I could go out and take a poll and get the answers I want by looking at the data I want.  Probability and Statistics 101

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:11 | 863797 Terminus C
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You missed the sign at the door.

"Don't feed the trolls."

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:45 | 863716 docj
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The Department of Imaginary Numbers?

Is that not sort of an insult to actual imaginary numbers - which are, indeed, quite real (sqrt(-1), and all that)?

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:46 | 863720 Econocidal Tend...
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Dept of Imaginary Numbers = the root of all the negativity on this board, LOL!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:57 | 863753 docj
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Cool - I evidently have my own "Serial Junker".  I feel like I've finally "arrived" at ZH!

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:01 | 863762 gloomboomdoom
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Take your PENT UP venting over to Marketwatch.

Keep waiting for a Market CRASH... but good luck holding physical cash

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:05 | 863775 docj
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Wow - so a snarky comment about "Imaginary Numbers" == PENT UP venting - complete with ALL CAPS.

Thanks for that.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:16 | 863805 gloomboomdoom
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keep smiling. :)

We are in a Depression... Fund Managers and Real Estate BROKERS will be the last to notice it. (then it will be much too late for the Tea Party to have any chance).

Obama 2012= 70%

The da Bears will throw the superbowl (Black Sox style)

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:12 | 863807 Terminus C
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Don't mind gbd... he's one of the resident trolls...  Try not to feed him.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:45 | 863717 Econocidal Tend...
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They could have revised it downward upon the scheduled February ISM release and nobody would have cared...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:48 | 863727 HarryWanger
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Looking a lot like Friday. Buy the morning weakness. AAPL/VZ announcement tomorrow will help the market as well. AAPL could see $370+ by the time earnings roll in next Tuesday.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:14 | 863813 Boilermaker
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Man, you can't make this shit up...

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 13:13 | 863991 HarryWanger
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You're right, I can't "make this shit up"...AAPL up another 5 bucks as I type.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 11:54 | 863745 gloomboomdoom
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Quit bitching and just buy Physical Silver Coins... It's in the Constitution next to ETFs... Of Course.

Greenspan Put= Bernanke Put

Much higher striking price for REAL MONEY!

:)

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 12:41 | 863893 johngaltfla
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Maybe they forgot to have the twinkle toed Turbo Tax Treasury fairy sprinkle his magic TARP dust on the report before it was issued.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 13:28 | 864054 Printfaster
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PMI does not come from BLS.  It is an independent group: www.ism-chicago.org

That does not mean that they are free of government influence, or that they depend on government or BLS figures.


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