I hate seasonally adjusted series


To all data providers, wherever they may be:

Please, please stop seasonally adjusting the series you give me. I can run a regression with seasonal dummies myself, thank you very much. So can everyone else. The difficult thing is to get from the seasonally adjusted series to the original one, and I don't see why you should deprive me of the privilege.

Yes, I know I shouldn't want to in most cases, but let me be the judge of that, OK? What's your problem anyway, what is it to you? Please, just do me this favour.

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