I have been bitching for years that they have and that the average person has no idea just how much. The link below should explain it for you.


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The government contols and maipulates all reporting on economic numbers. They contol the markets and they can even manipulate unemployment numbers by creating government jobs. It's a big smoke screen.

By shutting down this sitre, they are taking away one of the tools that the average joe has to check on what is happening to the economy and thus his life.

The "official" numbers are BS. The CPI leaves out energy, food, and housing. M3 isn't even reported any more, it monitored the growth of the money supply. The Federal Reserve say that it is too expensive to print, how ridiculous!!. I am sure that they still use they M3 to monitor what they are doing. The other indicators, are just as much BS.

Research the markets yourself, find your own sets of indicators, for whatever you are looking for.