• specialdealer@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Are you sure it’s the western estimates that were off? I suspect the CCP has politicized their economic metrics publications. Their recent changes to the youth unemployment numbers being the most recent indicator of this.

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      8 months ago

      You mean like how the USA include thousands of dollars of fake rent in GDP numbers for every single homeowner in America under the justification that if they didn’t own their homes they’d be paying rent? Like that kind of politicization of economic metrics publications? Or maybe you mean how the USA only counts someone as unemployed if they are pursuing their unemployment insurance but also every state has a financial incentive to deny as many unemployment claims as possible? Or maybe it’s the constant debate around whether to use a consume price index that excludes things food and rent?

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      8 months ago

      The new youth unemployment numbers now exclude students. In school. In China’s notoriously challenging education system. Shocking. Massively corrupt. Politicized. Terrible. Basically communism.

      Get a grip. Turns out, as your population increasingly pursues higher education, fewer youth are looking for jobs.