Everyone knows they edited these right to show the progression they wanted right?

It seems more likely that they cherry-picked favorable examples showing a clear progression, rather than just falsifying the content.

Even in these comments, there's a fair bit of disagreement about whether they show do show monotonic improvement.

The challenge with that idea is that investors and business people depend on these numbers being solid for investment decisions like "building a new factory" or "investing in GPUs."

Without solid numbers I wouldn't be surprised to see a shift to "assuming the worst case" and much more conservative and lower investment.

Many more people want to go to university now yet we haven't increased the supply of quality universities.

I suspect this is also bimodal as well. The top universities can charge this, but the bottom probably are struggling to survive.

The Trump tariffs / massive billionaire deficit tax cut / chaos start to hit home.

The amazing thing to me is that markets aren't tanking on this news. Are they just pricing in that prices will go up, so revenue with go up, and if margin maintains, profit will go up by a similar amount?

Yes, for THAT head of the BLS. It is super clear to the next head of the BLS that they deliver the number the president likes or they will be fired.

So, just like in Venezuela, that number will be delivered.

Picturing a future political cartoon of hobo-looking guys sitting around a winter fire burning in an old oil drum — one guy is holding up a newspaper (wut?) and saying to the rest, "Hey guys, it's fine because it says here that the employment numbers reported are the best ever!"

You mean like this one?

http://emilysquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EmilysQuo...

Timeless, ha ha.

If value was actually created every time before it was distributed to shareholders, it wouldn't be nearly as bleak as when the value is instead rapidly extracted from a long-term reservoir to make the numbers go up.

wanna bet? i will take a bet that inflation will not return to normal (ie. sub 2.1) in the next report

Sure it will. BLS guy will publish that number regardless.

That said, I also think there is a good chance of that because we will be in a recession by then from the tariffs.

Indeed, a gentleman's bet.

They knew the future in 2014 and somehow wasted 10 years

They had to invent transformers first.

He doesn't even get into the police state that is being methodically constructed around us by the regime.

"The software you just built is a complicated version of what I could have built in Excel."

Just turn off Wikipedia for the UK until it gets fixed.