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By Matthew Yglesias, Slate, Jan. 3, 2012
With graph
[....] Improving from a low base is not the greatest achievement in the world and I'm in no rush to break out the champagne for policymakers who've given us this long grinding recession. But things do seem to be improving.
Also see
his post from yesterday, Europe Plunging Into Doom:
I'm relatively bullish on America in 2012, but Europe is looking like a disaster with December stats indicating a fifth straight month of decline in manufacturing output [....]
Comments
IMO, how the data is being used is more than a little misleading. To quote a comment on the thread..
That's not my only issue with the methodology; but the observation is more succinct than mine were.
While admittedly an ad-hominem, IMO there are some serious concerns with Karl Smith's typical application of facts to analysis that make me less than inclined to ignore my own misgivings about the methodology in deference to his academic credentials on this one.
by kgb999 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 7:32pm