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While you can torture numbers to admit anything you want, these numbers don't lie.
January 2007 drop 2.9% over January 2006
February 2007 drop 4.8% over February 2006
March 2007 increase 1.3% over March 2006
April 2007 drop 9.9% over April 2006
May 2007 drop 5.5% over May 2006
June 2007 drop 1.9% over June 2006
July 2007 drop 2.3% over July 2006
August 2007 drop 5.9% over August 2006
September 2007 drop 10.6% over September 2006
http://www.state.nj.us/casinos/finan...atisitics.html
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Torturing numbers to admit what you want is exactly what you're doing here. You're right, these numbers don't lie, they mislead (a greater sin than lying, IMO).
You're presenting those numbers as proof that revenues keep declining on and on, when in fact the most you can say for sure is that they reflect a single shift. Do you realize that if some one-time event causes a permanent reduction of revenue by say 5%, you will have 12 month-to-month decreases of 5% (give or take) in a row? Do you realize that one-time shift does not in fact constitute "acceleration" of anything?
Nothing that you have posted so far convinces me that you have even an iota of clue about the subject you're preaching. Any fool can collect a bunch of numbers. Correctly interpreting them is a different story, and those that can do that get paid a lot of money.