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643 points throwaway5752 | 4 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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davidw ◴[05 Feb 25 17:06 UTC] No.42951629[source]▶
I've been fiddling around with the Albertsons API for fun. It's kind of neat to see a whole year's worth of purchases in nicely formatted JSON.

I have half an idea to create something like a personal inflation tracker, but I'm still thinking about it.

It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actually happening any more and that therefore we must cut interest rates, or some such.

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1. pton_xd ◴[05 Feb 25 18:46 UTC] No.42953212[source]▶
> It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actually happening any more and that therefore we must cut interest rates, or some such.

Like when the BLS overstated payrolls by 818k!! in March of last year, the largest negative revision in 15 years? And then the Fed did an emergency 50bps rate cut in September just as payrolls unexpectedly went up 250k and inflation seems to be coming back.

The unemployment and inflation data has been inconsistent for a while now.

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2. johnnyanmac ◴[05 Feb 25 19:10 UTC] No.42953535[source]▶
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/job-openings-decline-sharply...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

Still happening. We sure have been suddenly wild unaccirate with the job market while the Feds need to keep saying "everything is fine but...".

3. relaxing ◴[05 Feb 25 19:15 UTC] No.42953608[source]▶
> Like when the BLS overstated payrolls by 818k!!

So one Meta SRE? Is this supposed to be a lot?

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4. dmoy ◴[05 Feb 25 19:30 UTC] No.42953809[source]▶
818k jobs, not 818k USD

https://www.bls.gov/ces/notices/2024/2024-preliminary-benchm...

They're usually within +/- 0.1% for the estimate, that time it was 0.5% off