tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post681564845182877135..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: But what have you done for us LATELY???Mungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-32764466222431943462007-11-02T08:55:00.000-04:002007-11-02T08:55:00.000-04:00What sort of integrity (if any) do you guys see in...What sort of integrity (if any) do you guys see in the gov'ts inflation, jobs, and GDP numbers? John Williams @ ShadowStats has been tracking the "changes in methodologies" the gov't uses to give us our monthly and quarterly doses of economic fiction. If it sounds like I am jaded, I am. CPI and the GDP deflator look horribly understated for several years. And the jobs numbers make even less sense thanks to the birth/death model.<BR/><BR/>What do the trained economists in you think? <BR/><BR/>P.S. I had John Coleman as my Macro teacher @ Duke. I thought he was great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com