The Pentagon just cut $5.1 billion in IT and consulting contracts with firms like Accenture and Deloitte

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17. Surveys and features

I'm sure glad that hopefully some important surveys are still considered appropriate, even if only grudgingly so.

The consumer sentiment survey (University of Michigan) and the consumer confidence survey (Conference Board) are likely to keep getting more interesting and scary. The positive aspect is that it shows more and more people are catching on. Not a lot of people telling the surveyors about some "golden age" of falling prices. Greenland for just $570 million?

Come to think of it, the big first Friday job's report (featuring non-farm payrolls and the unemployment rate) data is from two surveys: the Establishment Survey and the Household Survey. Maybe the BLS should be called the Bureau of Labor Surveys. The unemployment insurance claims that come out every Thursday is based on a survey of each state's unemployment insurance data. Probably most of the economic reports are. (Another CPI = survey of retail prices)

Oops, did I say "featuring"? That's a bad word. I should say "highlighting" or something else safe like that.

I provided 12 PREVIOUS examples of the posting of that and know it's a regular feature

(emphasis added)

Or a regular "thing" or "report" or somesuch, rather than "feature"
https://www.google.com/search?q=thesaurus%3Afeature

Thanks also for all the info back on March 9 on these kinds of matters -- I really appreciate it.