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  1. California will make theirs available. If enough other states follow suit a reasonable picture of the economic situation can be put together.

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  2. It won’t matter. With the number of natural disasters: fires, floods, hurricanes, etc., happening in the US and Canada, the Insurance Companies will become more restrictive in their coverage so getting a loan for buying ANYTHING (cars, boats, homes, RVs, etc) will become virtually impossible.

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  3. Had a sassy reply but decided this was probably a bit more serious than that

    The answer is financial institutions are going to be flying blind and they will either weather the risks or fail spectacularly as we devolve into chaos

    Going to be an interesting decade ahead

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  4. ... "Financial institutions" 👀 Banks. Them CEOs sure wanted this shit cause they've been kissing ass for so many years. They'll just cook the books and take the profits ...

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  5. They’ll just make up their own numbers in search of competitive advantage. Until a market collapse presents itself, which is the all but inevitable result of firing the number crunchers.

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  6. We may have to research ourselves if we want to feel we’re getting some semblance of the truth because anything this administration puts out there will not be believed by anyone. Especially the businesses that keep the economy rolling.

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  7. Fortunately, we have several highly-respected and award-winning news sources that will give us real numbers. New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, are sources of verifiable news. Watch some of the shows about investments, they have many verifiable sources of economic and financial data.

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  8. They are screwed. I guess they will have to guess at it or make it up in house. I foresee a catastrophic fuck fest of conflicting information that no one will be able to use or depend upon. A huge business and financial cluster fuck.

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  9. Easy. The just need to count up the foreclosures for the month and determine the amount of groceries and gas put on a credit card.
    Government can’t fake those numbers.

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  10. I will be looking at the ADP jobs report. Also some private sector jobs reports and statistics. If a lackey is in charge of doing jobs report for the Government, we know they can't be trusted.

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  11. I guess it won't be from the BLS leaking the data early to them so they can trade on it, that's for sure. The truth of course being that there are alternative data sources, Wall St. just hates paying for something they used to get for free.

    qz.com/bls-cpi-supe...

    In at least one instance the BLS economist provided information that wasn’t yet publicly available

    JPMorgan and other Wall Street giants were on a government economist’s ’Super Users’ list

    In at least one instance the BLS economist provided information that wasn’t yet publicly available

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  12. It stands to reason that there's some correlation between US data and other nations where we can compare and draw at least an educated guess about how well or badly the US is doing. Most things are pegged to the US dollar and will continue that way until the collapse into fascist regime is complete

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  13. Honestly, it's all rigged. If every single one us pulled our money out of the market at this point, it wouldn't even drop the market valuations much. When 0.001% own 50% of global wealth and 1% own something near 70-80%, the game is set, and the match had been won.

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