28 February 2007

They aim to please...

...it's just that their aim is appalling. The US government has been forced to scale back its estimate of economic growth in the fourth quarter quite significantly. The had originally estimated a healthy 3.5% but say that the figure is actually 2.2%!

I'm fairly good at maths and the way I figure it that means that they reduced their original number by over 35%. That is really not very good at all. I think the appropriate grade would be a 'D' along with a note to the effect that the student "must try harder".

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