Category Archives: Dubious statistics

I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions

Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions

Further Thoughts on Sweden’s Pandemic Response

A Covid retrospective on Sweden indicates citizens to a large degreed ignored bad government advice.

Jobs Are Up, Wages Less So – and Lower Purchasing Power Could Still Lead the US into a Recession

Quelle surprise! Trends in wages indicate that the economy is less robust than the officialdom and financial press would have you believe.

How Economists Distorted Economic Theory to Help Big Companies Get Bigger

Economists had to play fast and loose with economic theory to deploy their merger “efficiency” arguments.

“Core Services” Inflation Jumps to 2nd Worst Since 1985, “Non-Housing Services” Are Red Hot. Fed’s Job Far from Done

Inflation in the US is still defying the Fed, confirming that the blunt instrument of interest rate increases is not the right tool.

KFF Health News Publishes Shameful, Self-Serving Story Advocating Unrealistic “Social Media” Approach to Bogus Insurer Denials Instead of Pushing for External Appeal

KFF Health News advocated feel-good but largely ineffective approaches to insurer denials, as opposed to effectiive reforms.

China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles

The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.

Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change

A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.

Fed Ponders How Quickly to Try to Inflict More Pain on the Economy to Get Inflation to 2%

Debates inside and outside the Fed as to what it should do next about inflation pick up as its annual Jackson Hole conference approaches.

Quelle Surprise! High Fee “Alternative Investments” Produce Serious “Negative Alpha” as in Underperformance as Managers Get Rich

In his latest paper, investment expert Richard Ennis continues showing how alternative investments destroy value.

FDA Tries to Pretend It Didn’t Oppose Ivermectin Use for Covid

The FDA attempts to distance itself from its earlier hostility to Ivermectin as a Covid remedy, but too many people have good memories.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber

Hubert Horan takes another hard look at Uber financials and finds much not to like.

The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?

What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.