It's up! It's down!
Who is the winner? I think it's the referee.

I would love to see these dumbass bureaucrats get what they deserve- for a change

Good one!
Should that happen again . . .bwahaha!

The Wall Street Journal didn't adjust for the extra sales days in December this year. When the adjustments are made the sales were disappointing.

I suspect that one is talking about car sales within the US and the other about worldwide sales by US auto companies. Probably in that order.

I would have said the blonde had me sold but when she left I changed my mind.

Oh, I dunno. My next visit may be as entertaining.

I think Trump would be the one guy who would fire an appointee who did not perform up to high standards. Bullshit him and firing would not be your only problem.

I took some statistics in college and I remember my professor saying he can make stats say what he wants them to say. You are absolutely right about seeing the data and making up your own mind.

It's not easy. I do realize that the government almost always lies. Frustrating when the press helps out.

I avoid going to a dealer like the plague

I would like to see them all meet up with President Trump and give HIM bullshit

Initially I had only seen the WSJ article. I almost fell for it but I knew something was wrong. Glad i saw this analysis.

I was politely dismissed from that salesperson's personage.

Huh...Not as interested in you once you weren't buying a new car.

Just more proof that you need to see the data to pass judgment on a statistical assertion.

Michael Bloomberg is such a wack job I would have expected them to misreport the numbers. Getting harder and harder to get the truth.

I dont read either of them. Too many hidden agendas and misinformation designed to make me do one thing or another.

This may explain the unprecedented salesperson antics at a Honda dealership the last time I brought my 2013 Fit for an oil change.
I'm sitting in the waiting room with a bunch of people when this giddy blonde appears with some kinda paperwork in hand and asks, "Is Mr. Allosaurus ("different lizard") here?"
She asks if I was interested in trading cars.
Being kinda bored despite my paperback novel and liking the company of a pretty blonde (despite her seeming a bit eccentric and way too young for me) I said I'll go look.
She handed me over to a sales guy. Crud!
He showed me a couple of brand new cars before I stated that I might be interested in seeing used cars one year old.
He said, "I thought you told Miss What's Her Name you were interested in a brand new car for the same monthly payment."
I said, "No, I didn't."
I wound back up in the waiting area but only had to wait like two minutes before I was told my car was ready.
At least I was not bored during all that silly business.

The Wall Street Journal is populated by government employees it appears. Yesterday it was Barone stepping up 6 years after the decline in trade. The auto industry has been slow for months and Bloomberg has it right. the journal with their government employees must do as all governments do put on a positive face regardless of reality.

like the Fed...much media print is dishonest...you need multiple sources and then piece it together yourself...not an easy thing...

It is sad. Makes it that much harder to defend our freedoms.

I think the press was taken over by the progressives before the government was. It was an easier takeover and it worked at getting them into the government. Sadly it's been going on a long time.

I thought the government was bad. One of the tools we had against government was freedom of the press. The press is just as bad now.