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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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To: philv who wrote (22389)2/17/2005 4:22:58 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (3) of 81028
 
Phil > What I don't understand is why anybody actually pays any attention to any of this B.S.

I presume because it's all there is.

> And no one wants to call the game because they are all in it.

Just like Japan which has slid into recession -- or has it? Try and work this one out -- if you can.

business.timesonline.co.uk

>>Economists challenged the accuracy of the numbers, while the Tokyo stock market closed barely lower as investors brushed aside the GDP figures as implausibly gloomy.

Analysts doubt some of the inputs used in compiling Japan’s national accounts, which are viewed by many as the least reliable among those from the world’s key economies.

One economist in Japan said that yesterday’s bleak results were the consequence of “garbage in, garbage out”.

The official data show that, as Heizo Takenaka, Japan’s Economy Minister, put it, its economy has “been marking time for a somewhat prolonged period”. <<
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