U.S. to alter calculations, boosting economic growth, productivity levels - Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis - New accounting methods to be announced October 28, 1999.

Proves you can make a silk purse from a sows ear.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/309205.asp

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), September 12, 1999

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and it says..... "Officials will also describe at a news briefing how they are changing the way they calculate household savings, a technical move that could have big symbolic importance. The shift could mean that the official personal savings rate is actually positive, not negative as the Commerce Department has been reporting in recent months. A negative savings rate means Americans are spending more than they are earning, and the figure has been widely cited as a sign of rare weakness in the current economic expansion."

ROFLMAO

Just think, I thought I was in debt up to my eyeballs! I'll feel so much richer after they tell me how much I really have.

-- Working Sot (living@thepoorhouse.com), September 12, 1999.

Yes, and you'll be so grateful not to mention HAPPIER to hand over more of the fruit of your labor. That's not smoke, it's a truck load of steamy humanure!

sdb

-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), September 12, 1999.