Escape from Muddle Land
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Read more...Category Archives: Dubious statistics
The Role of Default Settings in Online Searches: Challenging Google Dominance
A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
Read more...Satyajit Das: SVB Collapse and Bank Turmoil – Latest Chapter in the Unwinding
Peeling back more layers of the SVB implosion and its broader implications.
Read more...The Crisis in Scientific Publication: Peer Review, Authorship, Responsibility, and the Future of Science
Science is rotting thanks to bad metrics and bad publisher incentives.
Read more...Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Read more...Annual Services Inflation Rages at New Four-Decade High, Monthly Overall CPI Hottest Since June
Inflation is still very much with us….as if you didn’t know that.
Read more...The Correlation Between Oil Prices And Inflation Isn’t Straightforward
More debate about the role of energy price increases in consumer inflation.
Read more...A Big Reckoning Starting for Private Equity and Its Public Pension Fund Enthusiasts
Private equity returns are finally going pear-shaped, but for the most part, investors are re-upping their bets.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...Rural Americans Aren’t Included in Inflation Figures – and for Them, the Cost of Living May Be Rising Faster
The fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys only urban populations for the consumer price index could be masking a rural-urban inflation gap.
Read more...Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts.
Read more...The Black Death May Not Have Been Spread by Rats After All
A supposedly settled fact, that rats played a huge role in the European bubonic plague outbreak called the Black Death, may be all wrong.
Read more...Why China’s Shrinking Population Is a Big Deal – Counting the Social, Economic and Political Costs of an Aging, Smaller Society
Is the press unduly excited about the start of China’s expected demographic decline?
Read more...Oil Prices Rally As Confidence In A Global Economic Rebound Grows
Oil prices have perked up and oil price moves can lead market rallies. Is this a false positive or an early sign?
Read more...Paging Dr. Freud: Schizophrenic Reports on Mood of Davos Man
Unfortunately, it’s prudent to be mindful of what our Davos overlords are plotting. But they seem mighty unsettled.
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