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Why U.S. Economic ‘Statistics’ Get More and More Absurd
..........Written by Jeff Nielson (click for original)
Many recent commentaries have noted a distinct devolution in the numerical lies which the U.S. government calls its “economic statistics”. Numbers which used to be mere exaggerations (i.e. used to somewhat mirror the real world) have now become literally perverse: opposite to reality.
As U.S. “retail sales” collapsed at the end of last year (and now into this year) with a string of negative numbers, we’re told that somehow U.S. “consumer spending” surged by 4.3% in the fourth quarter of 2014, something which is mathematically impossible, since the two numbers must mirror each other.
With the U.S. economy showing even more obvious weakness than in previous years of this fantasy “recovery”, we’re supposed to believe that the U.S. economy just enjoyed its strongest quarters of growth in well over a decade. The economic lies are not merely far-fetched, they are totally ludicrous.
This begs the question, why pervert these “statistics” to such silly extremes? The answer will come immediately to readers the moment they turn on their business news, and hear about yet more “record highs” in the U.S.’s bubble-markets.
At this point, it’s necessary to turn the attention of readers to the themes of two previous commentaries which are of particular significance. The first commentary concerns the method by which all our markets are marched up and down like yo-yo’s, in near-perfect synchronicity – something which is absolutely/mathematically impossible in legitimate markets. Indeed, even in “rigged” markets there is only one means by which these markets can be led-by-the-nose, ever hour of every day: via a computerized Pied Piper.
The second commentary of note concerns the most likely time these bubble-markets will be torpedoed, allowing the sheep to be fleeced, and allowing Warren Buffett to ‘invest’ his hoard of money, which is now well in excess of $60 billion. Even in the Wonderland Matrix, no bubbles can be inflated forever. At some point the bubbles must be “popped”, or they will simply burst on their own – in an uncontrolled/uncontrollable manner.
The premise of the second commentary is that the U.S. 2016 election cycle the most likely time for the One Bank to engage in its bubble-bursting/sheep-shearing orgy. It’s also precisely the same pattern in which these financial psychopaths have engaged in the last, two great bubbles they manufactured: the dot-com bubble, and the even larger (and much more-fraudulent) U.S. housing bubble, where the preordained crashes also matched the U.S. election cycle.
The reason why this Old World Order likes to stage its crashes at the end of U.S. presidencies is both simple and obvious. Despite the fact that the bankers control both halves of the U.S. Two-Party Dictatorship (and have controlled them for over a century), the binary-minded Zombies of the U.S. population still suffer from the delusion that they are being given “a choice”.
Given this mentality, the timing of these “crashes” becomes elementary. The bubbles are burst near the end of one presidency, in order that the mouthpieces of the Corporate media can demonize that outgoing president as the villain/scapegoat – while the stooge representing the other half of the dictatorship is depicted as some sort of White Knight, riding to the rescue. In practical terms, it’s nearly identical to the system of government of the old, Soviet Union.
That’s “the Plan”. But standing squarely in the way of the plan is economic reality. And the “reality” is there has been no “economic growth”, and no “new jobs”, in this never-ending/non-existent “recovery”. Thus the extreme, teetering bubbles of (in particular) U.S. equity markets never had any substance, except for the Federal Reserve’s money-pump.
The Fed forcibly injected (officially) $4 trillion into U.S. markets via its fraudulent “quantitative easing”. But the Fed has supposedly ended this gratuitous money-printing (also mathematically impossible), meaning that in visible terms, all that is propping-up these bubbles are the economic lies of the U.S. government.
Even then, if our markets (most-notably U.S. markets) were being manipulated in the “old-fashioned manner” (i.e. via the direct, hands-on manipulation of human participants), then it would not be necessary to push these lies to such ridiculous extremes. But as has been previously proven by both theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence, our markets are not manipulated “by hand” any longer.
The Master Trading Algorithm of this crime syndicate handles virtually all such crime these days, and has been doing so for close to a decade, since our markets began to move in this impossible synchronicity. Here readers need to understand that while in many ways this means of manipulation is virtually omnipotent, there are limitations. Specifically, as with any computer program, it runs on data.
If human actors were manipulating these markets, then such manipulation could (at least in theory) continue through simply a steady series of “good” economic lies. However, put these same markets under the control of a computer program, with the intention of pushing the bubbles higher and higher until close to the 2016 election-window, and “good” numbers are not good enough.
To get this computer program to continue to manipulate these bubbles higher and higher requires that the economic lies pretend that the U.S. economy is getting “stronger and stronger”. Hence we hear media drones babbling that mantra of “stronger and stronger” – even as we saw a complete collapse in holiday spending, in the world’s largest “consumer economy”.
The bankers don’t want their economic lies to be seen as not merely dubious, but ludicrous to the point of being laughable. It’s “bad for business.” One of the few ways in which brainwashing can be shattered is through continually exposing the brainwashed mind(s) to perverse stimuli. “Big lies” are O.K. Perverse lies risk unravelling their entire Wonderland Matrix.
But the bankers have a Plan, and the Plan calls for the bubbles to keep going higher, until at least toward the end of this year. Then we can have (perhaps) a few months of teetering “uncertainty”, and then KA-BOOM! Old-man Buffet gets to cash-in with his mountain of money, before going to his “final resting place” (wherever that might be).
This makes the “improving economic news” further proof of this Master Trading Algorithm. If the markets were being manipulated by human hands, the ridiculous economic lies currently emanating from the U.S. government and Corporate media would be entirely counterproductive. It is only with markets under the control of a computer program where such lies become absolutely necessary.
Could we have some “hiccup” in these economic lies, as we saw in the first quarter of 2014? Indeed, that is not only possible, it’s likely, for two reasons. First of all, with the bubbles already pumped to ludicrous extremes, they are likely not capable of withstanding six, eight, or ten months more of continued inflating. A controlled “burp” (releasing some of the hot air) would make the bubbles relatively more stable, as the Plan nears fruition.
The second reason for a first quarter retreat this year is precisely the same as the reason for staging a Q1 “collapse” in 2014 U.S. GDP. The statistical liars then (literally) borrowed the “bad news” from the first quarter in order to pump-up their lies to more ridiculous extremes in the subsequent quarters, through the simple magic (i.e. fraud) of “seasonal adjustments”.
Just as we see these fraudsters about to repeat their eight-year, bubble-and-crash cycle for the third time, it would not be a surprise to see these relatively unimaginative felons repeating this annual pattern, as well. As with 2014, expect “cold weather” and not “U.S. economic weakness” to be the reason given for the Q1 bubble-tweaking which we are about to see.
Understand the absurdity here. The entire raison d’etre for the “seasonal adjustments” made by these statistical liars is so that the “seasons” (i.e. the weather) have no impact on the numbers. Thus when the (mindless) media drones blamed “cold weather” for the seasonally-adjusted Q1 collapse in 2014 U.S. GDP, this was just more of their nonsensical babble.
But in the Wonderland Matrix, apparently the United States never before experienced “cold weather” in the winter, prior to last year. How is this possible? It’s “the New Normal” – the catch-all expression used by the Liars to “explain” all the perversity and insanity. And when the (very) Rich have gotten much richer, by the time the dust settles from the upcoming crash, we’ll be told (yet again) that this is the New Normal, too.
..........Written by Jeff Nielson (click for original)
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Mam your 10,000 dollar home is now worth 400,000 dollars do you have your 50,000 dollar taxes for me today!………..Oh what do you mean I inflated your values,whats that there are 24 million repoed homes being kept off the market to create a plastic real estate market in values…………That’s a LIE mam…………..
Pfft taxman says as he walks away…………..I bet she thinks Im a carpet Bagger too!
Relax, it's the Fed's job to prevent panic but look on the bright side. They've given everyone an umbrella to shelter under which allows us to prepare for what's coming. As far as I can see there are only two solutions:
A/ Get out of debt and hold some coins and property along with some cash.
B/ Leverage as much debt as you can to buy coins and bury them in the back forty.
Thats exactly what I keep preaching to everyone.
I say get rid of your debt while supid people buy into the lie and the pumped up values.
Let them buy your debts as when the final reset happens you arent in the poor house and they are.........
Live below your means,stash cash as when real valuations strike your money will be worth something again when nobody else has any. Make you run on the bank before anyone else does and before the government makes big transactions illegal.
Crete comes to mind and all those poor folks got back was 20% of their bank accounts as the government robbed it and all the pension funds. Now there is talk of taxing savngs accounts hat dont pay anyhting anyway..........
Now if you have a low mortgage but cant pay off early refi over 30 and get the payment as low as possible,that way even a burger flippin job can keep your home........
Jeff, great piece. You have very clearly described the procedure in place, and once the scales fall from our eyes it really is laughably obvious. The 'parties' are the same, 'controversy' over policy is manufactured (notice the setup and managing of Elizabeth Warren's image as the latest Outrageous Populist and Warrior Against Banks), and TPTB will sink to any indignity to pretend there is any voting 'choice' in a country that is run entirely behind closed doors by banks and the military. They are so desperate to keep the people voting and believing, that I think the people must really have a lot of power that the criminals at the top are terrified that they will use. One such power might even be 'rejection and repudiation'. They desperately need a huge labour force to participate and believe in their system, rather than setting up their own alternatives.
<<The bankers don’t want their economic lies to be seen as not merely dubious, but ludicrous to the point of being laughable. It’s “bad for business.” One of the few ways in which brainwashing can be shattered is through continually exposing the brainwashed mind(s) to perverse stimuli. “Big lies” are O.K. Perverse lies risk unravelling their entire Wonderland Matrix.>>
Perverse lies is all they have left. It makes me laugh sometimes, to see the cognitive dissonance LENGTHS that voters, teevee watchers, and other idiots have to stretch their minds into now. You can see the realisation starting to dawn behind their eyes. I say, don't get the government to try to improve its lies. Let it continue telling them, bigger and bigger, until even the stupidest believer reaches the limits of their cognitive dissonance.
If I may make a suggestion: How about embedding a few links, George Washington-style, throughout your article to show evidence of the things you say? Granted, most of your audience here has been paying attention and already knows the laughable mismatch between government 'reports' and the real economy, but this article could be forwarded to friends, family, etc. who do not keep up with these things, and then they could follow the links to see for themselves what you are assuming is already known.
For just one example, see in this paragraph, some links embedded would be VERY useful to the uninformed:
<<As U.S. “retail sales” collapsed at the end of last year (and now into this year) with a string of negative numbers, we’re told that somehow U.S. “consumer spending” surged by 4.3% in the fourth quarter of 2014, something which is mathematically impossible, since the two numbers must mirror each other.>>
Put an evidentiary link on the retail sales collapse phrase, the string of negative numbers, and the laughable 4.3% surge report. Do this in other such references throughout your article. This would be icing on the cake, where the pattern you describe so clearly would become inarguable to even the least informed reader who cannot take the trouble (or might not know how) to google something for themselves. Such people exist, and sure enough, they vote!
As greyghost said, you should write something. Heck, just rewrite the article (take out the redundancies) and insert the links as you mentioned. Send it in and see if they publish it.
If they don't publish it you can always just post it in the comments, make your own blog and give us the link, or put it in the one place people are bound to see it - Farcebook.
no renfield, jeff's article is nothing but sprouts rehashed over and over again. i enjoyed reading your post ten times better than his crap. maybe you should write an article for the tylers......
Most absurd since Lehman...
Have you ever known someone that was really nice, honest, etc and then come to find out they had some sort of problem, say drugs for instance, and were fucking you over the entire time you knew them? That's what the US is like. Eventually the lies are recognized and it's an absurd slap in the face everytime they try to offer an explanation for something. It just gets more and more fkd up until it all comes crumbling down. You can never trust that person again and are forced to distance yourself from them and shield yourself from any future contact at all costs. Once trust is disolved, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to ever reclaim. And for good reason.
No wonder they're trying to take our guns.
They are economical...with the truth ;)
growth is the big lie. without the bailouts and 4 trillion infusion this illusion would be a wreak in the rebuild stage or worse yet, complete chaos with cival striff and death determining awhole different outcome. so they held it together for a new reckoning. time will bring about the reckoning of a very dark period on humanity. it just aint sustainable. sumtin gonna give way to reality. 7 billion atoms colliding in a preasure cooker, ha, gotta just laugh and wonder, when will hell on earth be the new reality.
Before MSN money blog shut down beause to many lets say truth tellers were nouncing facts against the BS that MSN was spreading it was said that the FED has likely pumped more than 200 trillion into the Dow markets up to the time.
The 4 Trillion is only what we know of.............if an audit took place we would find likely gazillions in bad debt being held by the FED over the last 100 years.
Currency swaps back and forth bewtween US dollars to xxx countries currency to shore it up backed by worthless american cash. Now we have the currency wars going and on and on...........
Eventually the fat lady gets in the limo to be driven to the opera to sing........
Will a FED agent be there to assissinate her again and again...........
We have no real basis of real value anymore except for that algorythm still playing the Banjo as we float down a river of no return.
All I can say is its going to be so shattering the great depression was a missed payday in comparison.
IIRC, it was Paulson who said there would be tanks in the streets. They didn't have enough tanks at the time (too many were deployed) and the troops were still loyal citizens. Now, the officer corp has been purged, the tanks brought home and the troops are being replaced.
Visited West Point last summer and saw a lot of the incoming freshmen. The vast majority were exceptionally short and brown skinned. Restrictions have been relaxed, it seems. One can only surmise that enlisted is even worse. How many troops today were born in this country and feel loyal to the people via the Constitution?
We must also consider drones and technology. A loyal citizen drone pilot might step into his virtual cockpit and drone targets all day long without actually knowing who he is killing nor even where. Everything is presented on a computer screen and computer screens can lie - see article above. On top of this they have developed and deployed the infrastructure necessary to track virtually each potention target in real time with minimal human effort.
The next time there quite well could be tanks in the street as they will be much more prepared for that scenario. A lot of people here believe that IS the whole point of propping this thing up as they are - buy time to prepare for solving the crisis they have so meticulously manufactured.
The new new normal is going to suck.
Liars sons of bitchs and lying sons of bitches.
There are three kinds of sons in Kansas.
1. Sunflowers
2. Sunsets
3. Sons of Bitches
thanks. it is outstandingly clear.. that the wonder of HFT haveenabled the new norm, and while it certainly would appear the bubble will get pushed to say summer '16, even calling any time frame is very risky business.. for we have been burned so many times before. and with global CB's seemingly already maxed out sort of.. one has to wonder.. will that bursting be different.. as in global reserve currency swap etc..
We are fucked, basically.
to the author....where's the beef? we already know this. the sprout boys are becoming a perpetual mouth machine
The author laid it out bare and in simple language whats been going on.............
See ya at the FEDS Cash Window I hear another 200 billion is fixing to hit the floor....
Janet hasnt said who she is buying today But im sure my al gore-rythm will pick it up at about the 1/4 rise on the stocks shes punping then I can short it..............
You see its not so hard to understand we are all buying loads of worthless money.
Bending and distorting data gives them the ability to control the market. In an honest system we can correct problemms, usually with market corrections, but what we have now will lead to a destruction that will make 1929 look like a golden age.