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npalli 3 days ago

Not to be a Doomer but the last time I recall a revision around this magnitude was during the GFC[1].

   Summary of the benchmark revisions The March 2009 benchmark level for total  nonfarm employment is 131,175,000; this figure is 902,000 below the sample-based estimate for March 2009, an adjustment of -0.7 percent. Table 1 shows the total nonfarm percentage benchmark revisions for the past ten years.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/benchmark/ces-benchmark...
eunos 3 days ago | parent [-]

Another GFC during a "cold war" with China and Russia? Great, just great.

stogot 2 days ago | parent [-]

China is waiting for the opportunity to invade Taiwan and that opportunkty is when the US is economically, politically weak and divided