24 hour news (cable and online) got into the habit of basically reporting on the monthly reports like they are gospel, when realistically they are only reliable around November or December. I think the Fed encourages it too because it’s quietly one of the levers they can use to inspire foreign investment.

… and almost no one actually checks the revisions to those numbers later, because the ruling class isn’t smart, they just have money, for whatever reason.

For the last 2 years, the BLS numbers have been so unreliable, so often revised by huge amounts, that they are just worthless, they’re more bullshit than the US media spent the better part of 2 decades saying half the numbers coming out of China were/are.