Showing posts with label political agenda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political agenda. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Toxicity of Mainstream News

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Chris Mayer at the Daily Reckoning explains why we should not rely on mainstream news as source for decision making (bold emphasis mine) ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Video: Statistical Trickery on US Wage Stagnation

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Professor Don Boudreaux exposes on how statistics can be subject to analytical prestidigitation. Statistical legerdemain has frequently been...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Selection Bias in Reporting Inflation

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From Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum , When statisticians use the term "sample selection bias," they are referring to a flaw in the...

US CPI Inflation’s Smoke and Mirror Statistics, Part 2

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In defense of their interventionist bias, the conventional question framed by mainstream statists goes around this context, “given the FED’...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Falling Markets, QE 3.0 and Propaganda

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The essence of the interventionist policy is to take from one group to give to another. It is confiscation and distribution.-Ludwig von Mise...
Friday, May 20, 2011

End The IMF

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The sexual molestation scandal has compelled the resignation of IMF’s Dominique Strauss Khan. Now there are have been speculations on his...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

US CPI Inflation’s Smoke and Mirror Statistics

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Cato’s Mark Calabria asks Is Housing Holding Back Inflation? He writes, Also of interest in the April numbers is that if you subtract...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Global Equity Markets: Sell in May and Go Away?

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Some experts have been talking about selling in May and going away. The premise of this precept is fundamentally seasonal. Chart from ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

$1.1 Trillion Spent On Arms Is $1.1 Trillion of Wasted Resources

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$1.1 trillion was spent by nations for defense. According to the Economist , (bold highlights mine) THE ten biggest defence budgets...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Inflation Expectations: The Widening Chasm Between Households And Experts

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Despite mainstream experts blabbering about deflation, we’ve been defiantly predicting for a long long long long time that inflation would b...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Validated On The Goldman Sachs-SEC Episode

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I had repeatedly argued here that the Goldman-SEC row had been nothing but a slick political publicity stunt, some excerpts: “Moreover, it...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Earth Hour In The Philippines: Rotational Brownouts! The Revenge Of Economics

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For domestic Earth Hour fans, your dreams just came true: Earth hour is for now a reality -via rotational brownouts in Metro Manila! 2-3 ho...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Federal Reserve Tightening: Exit Experiment or Bernanke's Confirmation Insurance?

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Austrian economist Professor Gary North recently suggested that the Federal Reserve has been tacitly tightening. He offers three charts as p...