Site Contributions: Econometrics
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05/11/13 - Symptoms Don't Lie
A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a determination ... |
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05/06/13 - The Financial Press: A Disinformation Machine
Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns Capital declares the April payroll jobs report that was released on May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be "fictitious." ... |
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04/30/13 - The Impossible Problem of Old People
Global Aging 2013: Rising To The Challenge ... Since October 2010, when Standard & Poor's Ratings Services published our last update on the implications of population aging ... |
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04/27/13 - Changing the Conversation
Don Draper, Mad Men's master advertiser likes to say "when you don't like what they are saying, change the conversation." When it comes to the current economic weakness, which ... |
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04/11/13 - Shock: Bloomberg Admits Models Don't Work – Economics, Government Turned Upside Down?
Beware of Economists Peddling Elegant Models ... Mathematics can be beguilingly elegant. It can also be dangerous when people mistake its elegance for truth. Albert Einstein's ... |
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03/12/13 - Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'll let you have at a ... |
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03/08/13 - What Does the Dow Really Measure?
The Dow Isn't Really At A Record High (And It Wouldn't Matter If It Were) ... Just a quick, cranky reminder: Despite what you may have read, the Dow Jones industrial average ... |
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02/07/13 - Investing In a World of Make Believe
In recent years, a high degree of economic, financial and political uncertainty has resulted in acute volatility in stocks, real estate, commodities and precious metals. I ... |
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01/08/13 - Washington's Hegemonic Ambitions Are Not in Sync With Its Faltering Economy
In November the largest chunk of new jobs came from retail and wholesale trade. Businesses gearing up for Christmas sales added 65,700 jobs or 45% of November's 146,000 jobs ... |
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12/10/12 - More Phony Employment Numbers
Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) calls the government's latest jobs and unemployment reports "nonsense numbers." There are a number of ongoing problems with the ... |
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11/02/12 - The Downside of Debt
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, president of Argentina, will never be remembered as a great economist. Nor will she win any awards for 'accuracy in government reporting.' Au ... |
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10/29/12 - The Virtual Recovery
Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the ... |
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10/16/12 - Keeping Up Statistical Appearances
Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the first time since the administration ... |
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10/16/12 - Measurable Improvements
What exactly went wrong in Germany? Thomas Jefferson had been dead for 150 years when Adolf Hitler came to power. But he would have recognized the broad outlines of the ... |
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02/15/12 - IMF's Disastrous Neo-Keynesianism Is 'Groovy Idea,' Says TNR
How the IMF Got Its Keynesian Groove Back ... Two events in recent years put the IMF back on the Keynesian track: The 2008 financial meltdown, and the arrival of a new fund ... |
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02/09/12 - Elite Media Downplays Austrian Economics by Building Up MMT
Heterodox economics ... Marginal revolutionaries ... The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attack ... The market monetarists do not fret ... |
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11/15/11 - Attorney Responds To the Daily Bell
Best Satire of Faux Austrian Economics Ever ... Someone has created a fabulous, richly detailed parody of Austrian economics. They call it The Daily Bell and claim that its ... |
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07/25/11 - China – Third Pillar of a Broken World Economy?
China's spectacular real estate bubble is about to go pop ... So you thought that UK housing was unaffordable. Try Beijing and Shanghai, where ... prices are off the scale ... |
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