Here's a striking chart, from a 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives article 1520464250646 by Brookings Institution economists Martin Neil Baily and Barry P. Bosworth on the state of manufacturing in ...

In this slowing U.S. economy, it's important to understand why and how economists' adjustments of actual data can produce misleading results. Worse, those adjusted results often are presented as ...

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We've had a lot of fun over the last month and a half diving into GDP revisions, where we were the first ones ever to try to use brand new series of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on the ...