Category Archives: Dubious statistics

How to Know Which Impeachment Polls to Believe – and Which to Skip

Since impeachment looks likely to stay front and center of the news, how to make sense of polls.

Making Profit Should Not Now Be the Primary Goal of a Business: Being Net-Zero Carbon Should Be

Central banker Mark Carney argues for green economy gradual transition, Can’t get too much in the way of almighty profit.

California’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices

Drug price data in Califorinia shows mind-boggling increases in wholesale prices since 2019. Of course, the industry claims that that information is misleading.

The Census Fails to Count 100 Million People as Living in Poverty

IPS Fellow Karen Dolan, who works with the Poor People’s Campaign, discusses her new study on poverty in the US.

Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work

A sanity check on the Green New Deal.

How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers

New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics.

The Implementation Flaw in Warren’s Wealth Tax

There are better ways to skin fat cats than Warren’s wealth tax.

Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom

The debate over secular stagnation continues, yet orthodox economists are loath to admit that the needed fix is more demand, which means more government spending.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-One: Mike Isaac’s Book Ignores Economics and Financial Results and Gets the Uber Story Almost Entirely Wrong

Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.

Axios: What’s the Actual Cost of Not Addressing Climate Change?

bunking some arguments against Sanders’ climate change program.

Is it Really “Full Employment”? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019

Many indicators say the US is close to full employment. Hours of work tell a different story.

Hong Kong’s Economy Is Still Important to the Mainland, at Least Financially

Correcting misinformation about Hong Kong’s status sometimes bandied about by critics of its protestors.

It Was More Like a Couple of Asian Decades Than a Century

China’s trend rates of growth are likely to be much lower than in the past, and even that is problematic. China will remain an important Asian player, not a dominant global force.

No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income

Why a widely-held view about productivity that is foundational to the claim that people are paid what they deserve does not hold up to scrutiny.