go there. How about Shoot You Till You Die Valley? No, don't even go there. See, you've got to do the basics right. Got to get the basics. Don't go to a place called Death Valley.

All right. In Zero Hedge there's an article by, well, it's talking about Jeff Tucker of Brownstone Institute. He basically has the proposition that we may have been in recession for years and the reason it's not obvious is that 100% of our economic data is fake. Has anybody told you that before? If I ever told you directly that all of our economic data is fake, I think I've made, you know, I've certainly made disparaging remarks about certain elements of it. But I'm fairly confident that it's all fake or it's all in a context or they used to measure it one way and now they measure it another or they know they're overstating it but later they're going to correct it or they know they're understating it but later they're going to correct it or they always knew it was wrong but it's advantageous to measure it this way.

As a person who used to, for a living in the actual capitalist commercial world, it was my job to bring data to management. And the one thing I can tell you for sure is it was never real. Be