Not too many things in this world more agenda driven than the compilation and publication of statistics.
Thanks for pointing it out.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli
AdamJanuary 28, 2009 at 1:10 pm
This is off-topic, but why didn't either of the Cafe's owners sign the Cato ad in the Times today opposing the stimulus bill?
BoscoHJanuary 28, 2009 at 1:51 pm
"Things are bad. Let me (double) count the ways." Economists seem to be the first in line to imbibe in the animal spirits.
SuperheaterJanuary 28, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Don, keep at it. Samuelson, Krugman et al
seem to think that their Nobel fueled egos make them infallible and unassailable, even when they purposefully pimp their craft to politics.
Of course we all know there's a contradiction, since the first rule of economics is everything is scarce and the first rule of politics is ignore the first rule of economics.
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Not too many things in this world more agenda driven than the compilation and publication of statistics.
Thanks for pointing it out.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli
This is off-topic, but why didn't either of the Cafe's owners sign the Cato ad in the Times today opposing the stimulus bill?
"Things are bad. Let me (double) count the ways." Economists seem to be the first in line to imbibe in the animal spirits.
Don, keep at it. Samuelson, Krugman et al
seem to think that their Nobel fueled egos make them infallible and unassailable, even when they purposefully pimp their craft to politics.
Of course we all know there's a contradiction, since the first rule of economics is everything is scarce and the first rule of politics is ignore the first rule of economics.