Lead Item today on the WSJ website:

New-home sales managed a small gain in October, but prices tumbled, prior month sales were revised sharply lower, and demand over the past year was down 24%, government data Thursday showed.

Meanwhile, government bean-counters revised up their estimate of third-quarter U.S. economic growth to 4.9%, a full percentage point above their previous estimate. But that did nothing to change expectations that the economy’s growth is grinding nearly to a halt in the current quarter.

“Bean-counters”?

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