When Goldman Sachs announced it is revising it's 3rd quarter GDP number DOWN to 2.7% from 3.0% and then Commerce announces the VERY NEXT day that it's 3.5%.
Not sure I believe commerce department...not to say they are lying but maybe calculating differently..
Just like CPI, I think they totally make that one up...
Possibly, but it won't be THAT far off.
The same way John Maynard Keynes preached the role of government spending interventionist economics and is the basis for Big Government and Milton Friedman won a nobel prize for economics while advocating minimal government intervention.
Everyone has to 'predict' what will happen by using metrics they believe in and in the end, it's just an educated guess. The Goldman guy theorized his metrics would go one way and they didn't.
LSU - like the weather. Think about when people are predicting hurricanes each year. Thirty-two named storms.
I'm not disagreeing with you.
Best quote I have heard to describe it is from Eisenhower I think. He once said 'What I really need is a one handed economist."
(For those of you that don't immediately get it, it's because most every economist will say, well on the one hand this could happen, but on the other hand this could happen).
It's interesting just because of that, the data is compelling for all sides and thus the debate continues.
Goes to show nobody knows what the hell is going on. 25% difference in GDP numbers...sheesh...In weather terms it seems like predicting a sunny day and getting tagged with a hurricane.
If the under/over on Ronnie's IQ was 60, I would still take the under.