Yea I really like the quote the OP references, but it's not clear to me who is playing the role of the "ministry of plenty"? The author? The fed? And what stats

Yea I really like the quote the OP references, but it's not clear to me who is playing the role of the "ministry of plenty"? The author? The fed? And what stats referenced in the article are they accusing of having been retroactively revised (aside from the common minor adjustments that trail headline news by ~1month, which would already be included in the stats this article references).