The Frightening Global Rise of Agnotology
Culturally Constructed Ignorance Wins the Day Exaggeration is one thing. Living in an alternate universe is another. Bloomberg, June 27,...
More Bad Math – This Time on USA Expats
Americans are renouncing their citizenship in record numbers! Or so we’ve been told. Lots of partisan reasons have been cited for this,...
Brownback’s Abject Tax Policy Failure in KS
@TBPInvictus here. In July 2012, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback penned an op-ed titled “Tax Cuts Needed to Grow Economy” in...
Trump: Unemployment is 20%; BLS Data is Fraudulent
By now, we have become almost used to a steady stream of inaccurate statements from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Most...
Was April Retail Sales Data Rigged?
@TBPInvictus here. I was made aware last week that ZeroHedge had picked up on some comments made on Bloomberg by MacroMavens economist...
Atrocious Math Mars Atlantic “Mass Extinction” Article
Salil Mehta is a two-time Administration executive, leading Treasury/TARP’s analytics team, as well as PBGC’s policy, research, and...
Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
@TBPInvictus here: It was exactly one year ago – here – that I penned my first piece on Seattle’s then-new (just going...
Why Can’t We Find Productivity Gains?
Soaring Productivity Is Missing From the Numbers We produce more with less because of technology. But data measurement hasn’t kept...
No Cure for Stupid: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here: The New York Post’s editorial board apparently cares very little for factual data that disagree with their...
Why Are There So Few Women in Finance?
Where Are the Women in Finance? The numbers are improving, but have a long way to go. Bloomberg, February 24, 2016 Today I...