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Wiz Imp

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7. Stephen Moore must be the most dishonest "economist" in the world.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:54 PM
Aug 10

In this case, he's even more dishonest than Trump, because Trump is legitimately clueless about the numbers. Moore knows the process for developing the numbers and is dishonestly manipulating the numbers himself to make a point that is 100% false. William Beach is correct - The first bar—labeled as an August jobs revision—used a preliminary estimate that was later revised downward in February, meaning the number on the chart didn’t match the official final figure, Beach said. Beach also argued the benchmark revision figure on the chart was incorrect and didn’t align with BLS’s published data. The last bar, labeled “total revisions,” was mathematically flawed, he said, because it added benchmark revisions to monthly revisions, even though the benchmark already incorporates those monthly changes—“like counting the same apple twice and pretending you had two.” Moore knows he's lying but doesn't care - that's the point. Trying to get people to believe the lies is what's important to him. To hell with the truth.


You want a real conspiracy? Additionally, during the press conference, Moore said the income figures came from unpublished Census Bureau data. So how the hell did a non-government employee get access to non-published Census data? That is truly scandalous.

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