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Foreign governments fabricate economic stats to guide macroeconomic policy
“You get countries that just straight up, you know, lie about economic stats, right? They make they make macroeconomic decisions based on complete fabrications about the price of goods in their countries, right?”
Small, carefully structured data samples outperform large, sloppy data sets
“You're better off with small, carefully constructed, structured sample, rather than a large, sloppy sample.”
The Reserve Bank of India changed interest rates over soaring onion prices
“The RBI actually went and changed interest rates because onion prices did this.”
University of London researchers link food price spikes to civil unrest
“There's some researchers at the University of London kind of did this really cool study on the incidents of violence and then the correlation between that and, like, food price spikes, and they found, like, you know, pretty significant correlation there, espec…”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics spends $250M annually collecting price data
“Two hundred fifty million dollars a year, it takes the BLS to collect this data”