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Re: Brekky table gossip



Jim Devine wrote,

>and why do these financial whizzes care about a statistic for only one
>quarter, one that will likely be revised within the next year or so? (See
>Dean Baker's comment on these stats, how revisions make the "New Economy"
>look more paltry.) They deserve their fate if they are so superficial.

The revision was for the 1996-2000 period. Your comment on superficiality
still holds, though.

Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
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