But peel back to the real numbers and they seem to make very little economic sense.
Whatever the real numbers, 2006 seems to have been the worst for many years, if not ever.
The real numbers for this February will not be reported until March 2014.
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Looking at the real numbers about the U.S. economy it is obvious to me that the U.S. is headed towards bankruptcy.
But no one, including the Republicans, is talking about the real numbers.
What is important in the poll is the revelation that so many Americans are completely in the dark when it comes to the real numbers.
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If Wall Street predicted that Enron would earn 30 cents a share, by God, Enron's gonna earn 31 cents a share no matter what the real numbers were.
In this instance, the ideologues are obscuring the real numbers, leaving the public (conservatives, liberals and independents) to base their opinion on a potentially false understanding of what the tax changes under consideration really mean.
Whether it is the Saad and Gosaibi case shrouded in layers upon layers of useless and expensive secrecy or the real numbers of health and safety accidents, it seems countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are not particularly known for prioritizing transparency.
So, if Congress wishes to outlaw medical malpractice as a way of lowering the cost of healthcare, they are going to take a lot of heat as the real numbers become available to the public and we all discover that completely doing away with medical malpractice suits would, at best, have a negligible impact on our problem.
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"For a lot of the students, the first time they actually get exposed to the real financial numbers on the farm may be through this class, " Moore said.
Beyond whether or not the numbers are real is the question of what those numbers would actually prove even if they were.
While I understand that committed Scott Walker supporters will not much care that this is a rather extraordinary way to present the real job numbers for Wisconsin whatever those numbers may be it does become difficult to avoid that there is some mighty spinning going on here.
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Removing the inventory build-up from the reported numbers, the real growth rate was an even more anemic 1.5%.
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Even better, by 2008 the company was also actually paying attention to the fact that we were putting real numbers on the board.
Other groups are pointing to the increase in the minimum wage, rather than the recession, as the real culprit behind the teen unemployment numbers.
In the case of the Mazda3 with SkyActiv and I hereby declare a fatwa on that cheesy bit of marketing the pleasures are threefold: First, the car utterly exceeds expectations, insofar as it actually approaches in the real world the fuel-economy numbers ginned up by the Environmental Protection Agency test cycle.
The numbers are real and they portend a national financial disaster.
"The real problem with spectator numbers and media reach is that the European leagues are the leading football propositions in the region, " said Jamie Cunningham, chief executive of Professional Sports Group.
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This is the space on which all numbers, real, imaginary and combinations of the two, can be plotted.
The danger of this, of course, is that the organization tends to pursue the numbers themselves rather than actual real life results.
When the IRS began to improve its control on Social Security numbers, Hersch started using real numbers to perpetrate the same scam.
The real test will be the Q4 2012 market share numbers.
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Those who want to present the bullish view will give you sales or price numbers for real estate for the first half or the last year.
Yes, I have said several times recently that stocks are rising but the U.S. economy is not but now that the first quarter is almost over I can use real numbers that should scare anyone who believes the U.S. economy is in a sustainable accelerating recovery.
Also, some leaks, wiki and other, appear to confirm that the real amount in reserve is far lower than the official numbers.
Based on these numbers, the real tally of the jobless is probably about 30 million, or a real jobless rate of 18.7%.
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