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Wiz Imp

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6. This is how they are dealing with data they don't like.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2026, 06:00 PM

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Contrary to popular opinion here, they are NOT manipulating the data. If the data is inconvenient to them, they just stop its release. The same thing will happen with the jobs and inflation data if it comes to that.

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