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Originally posted by knowbs ↑

Below is a selection of the US economic data points that have missed expectations in just the past month.
MISSES

Personal Spending

Construction Spending

ISM New York

Factory Orders

Ward's Domestic Vehicle Sales

ADP Employment

Challenger Job Cuts

Initial Jobless Claims

Nonfarm Productivity

Trade Balance

Unemployment Rate

Labor Market Conditions Index

NFIB Small Business Optimism

Wholesale Inventories

Wholesale Sales

IBD Economic Optimism

Mortgage Apps

Retail Sales

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort

Business Inventories

UMich Consumer Sentiment

Empire Manufacturing

NAHB Homebuilder Confidence

Housing Starts

Building Permits

PPI

Industrial Production

Capacity Utilization

Manufacturing Production

Dallas Fed

Chicago Fed NAI

Existing Home Sales

Consumer Confidence

Richmond Fed

Personal Consumption

ISM Milwaukee

Chicago PMI

Pending Home Sales

Personal Income

Personal Spending

Construction Spending

ISM Manufacturing

Atlanta Fed GDPNow

So a pattern emerges: we have an economy in which jobs and only jobs are acting as if there is a strong recovery, while everything else is sliding, disappointing economists, and in fact hinting at another contraction (whatever you do, don't look at the Fed's internal model of Q1 GDP).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-17/something-strange-going-nonfarm-payrolls

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Why are you quoting economic data? Everyone nows it's all fudged, right?

Good data is incorrect and bad data is correct. lol
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