Good morning. Nice one! The Guardian???s timeline on the Eurocrisis. Definitely worth checking out!
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Chinese data this morning (GDP, industrial production, retail sales) is either in line, or better than expected
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Ah, the world is finally waking up to the idea central banks can decide to cancel government debt. ???It certainly seems the logical endpoint of the policy.??? Via @leonmcw and @LaurensSwinkels
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Russ Roberts takes it to the next level: following his weekly podcasts, the Hauek/Keynes raps, now he makes youtube movies
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Interesting and encouraging trend for the US labour market. It would have been better if the chart started in 2000 though???
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Housing starts surprise on the upside! No where near the recession lows in the past, but at least it is a start
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German grundlichkeit to the max: how much will each possible exit scenario cost each country in the world???
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Not completely sure what kind of miracle adjustments have been applied, but the outcome (inflation vs unemployment) looks promising
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Can anyone tell me what is horribly wrong about this chart? It ranks high on my how-to-lie-with-statistics list for 2012???
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A non-economic last entry from slate about Neanderthals: I think I am going to do a test like that as well???
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Hi,Do you know why I can only see the graphs on:- Chinese data this morning (GDP, industrial production, retail sales) is either in line, or better than expected- Not completely sure what kind of miracle adjustments have been applied, but the outcome (inflation vs unemployment) looks promisingAll others show a ‘broken image’ sign. Is it a particular file type why I can only see the two mentioned above?Ps. When I click the link, I can see them fine on the orginal pages. Thanks,Mark
Mark!Posterous’ ways are somewhat of a mystery to me: most of the time they produce better results than I could have hoped for, sometimes things go wrong and I am not able to find out what I can do to solve it. In this case, I have checked on two computers and three different browsers but cannot replicate the situation you describe. The links that you can see are both .png files, but if that were the answer, you would have been able to see the "Can anyone tell me what is horribly wrong about this chart? It ranks high on my how-to-lie-with-statistics list for 2012???" as well…As an alternative, you can check http://www.robeco.com/professionals/insights/markets/best-economic-links-of-the-web.jsp Hope this helps.Lukas
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Lukas,</div><div><br></div><div>The Robeco site works perfect thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br><br></div></body></html>