The Perils of Economic Stats

Coming on the heels of Robert Shiller’s idea for securities based on national GDP, consider the problem of constant revisions. GDP growth for the third quarter of 1983 has been revised ten times, including once this year.

Posted by on December 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm


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