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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (111288)7/5/2001 4:38:12 PM
From: Ken98  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
$12.3B for light trucks, HO!HO!

<<A release by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, which compiles the monthly consumer spending and income reports, said the error caused the spending figures to be overstated by $12.3 billion in May, resulting in the incorrect monthly increase of 0.5 percent.

``The error was in (personal consumption expenditures) goods, specifically, estimates of consumer purchases of light trucks,'' the government's release stated.>>