http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-06/bls-caught-fabricating-data#comment-10408627
However, a problem emerges when one looks just one month prior, at the revised August data.
What one sees here, as Andrew Zatlin of South Bay Research first
noted, is that while the Total Private Average Weekly Earnings line
posted another solid increase of 0.2% month over month, an upward
revision from the previous month's 0.1%, when one looks at the
components, it become clear that the BLS fabricated the numbers,
and may simply hard-coded its spreadsheet with the intention of
goalseeking a specific number.
Presenting Exhibit 1: Table B-3 in today's jobs report. What it shows is that whereas there was a sequential decline in the Average Weekly Earnings for Goods Producing and Private Service-producing industries which
are the only two sub-components of the Total Private Line (and are
circled in red on the table below) of -0.8% and -0.1% respectively, the
BLS also reported that somehow, the total of these two declines was a 0.2% increase!
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