On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Christian Gregory wrote:
> Again, what is odd about this adjustment? It would seem to me odd to
> leave it out
I'll say. You ought to follow the news in a country where they make no seasonal adjustments, like Germany. It's hilarious. They set a raw number as the political tripwire, like 4 million unemployed, and then give the government kudos and brickbats as the raw number of unemployed goes wildly up and down in entirely predictable patterns from season to season.
Michael