Fighting against statism in Washington is a lot like trying to swim upstream. It seems that everything (how to measure spending cuts, how to estimate tax revenue, etc) is rigged to make your job harder.
A timely example is the way the way government puts together data on economic output and the way the media reports these numbers.
Just yesterday, for instance, the government released preliminary numbers for 4th quarter gross domestic product (GDP). The numbers were rather dismal, but that’s not the point.
Read more: http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2013/02/01/making-sense-of-keynesianlaced-gdp-reports-n1502424/page/full/
A timely example is the way the way government puts together data on economic output and the way the media reports these numbers.
Just yesterday, for instance, the government released preliminary numbers for 4th quarter gross domestic product (GDP). The numbers were rather dismal, but that’s not the point.
Read more: http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2013/02/01/making-sense-of-keynesianlaced-gdp-reports-n1502424/page/full/
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