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  • Wall Street: Dumb as It Ever Was [View article]
    Shadow Statistics is a bunch of rubbish. I have a background in statistics and am intimately acquainted with how the government samples populations to to form estimates. It's quite solid.

    Shadow Statistics is just one notch above the Conspiracy Theorists. Just one short step ....


    On Nov 06 09:47 AM BerkeleyBob wrote:

    > Thanks for a small but healthy dose of realism. More is at stake
    > here than trivial rounding errors being seized upon by "experts";
    > the unpleasant fact remains that basic economic measures are massaged
    > and manipulated until they have little meaning. Do you believe the
    > employment or cpi numbers promulgated by the government? The folks
    > at Shadow Statistics sure don't. Nothing like some good roots reggae
    > to get you through the hard days--how about "Times Tough" by Toots?
    Nov 06 10:20 am |Rating: +12 -27
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