-revisions), arbitrarily revised upwards the data of the Hungarian Statistical Office (HSO) on GDP-growth for the first three quarters of 2016 …. This "methodological innovation" (as put by the NBH) served to support its unrealistic 2.8 percent GDP-growth projection … for 2016. In March 2017, the HSO reported GDP to have grown by a mere 2 percent in 2016. Hence, the "backcast" of the NBH …