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"God can have opinions; everyone else should bring some data." often attributed to W. Edwards Deming, but most likely should be attributed to R. A. Fisher or George Box

Friday, June 17, 2016

Data on US Trade Surpluses in Services

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The graph below is from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In this election season when one of the candidates continues to insinu...

Friday, June 3, 2016

Graduation Rates and Student income

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There is an interesting piece on the New York Times (The Upshot) about the relationship between graduation rates and low income students. T...

Saturday, January 9, 2016

President tenures and jobs

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Political arguments about principles and ideas are always part of America's ongoing discussion about the role of government, the purpos...

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

States and Federal Aid

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The graph below is from taxfoundation.org and shows the degree to which states rely on Federal aid. The post says: Mississippi, for insta...

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Maybe a New Year will bring a new result

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I suppose it is too much to expect that in an election year (why would it be different??) some sanity would come back to fiscal policy. Tha...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Data on Millennials and economic progress

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From Zillow we have the following data: "Some people are born lucky, lucky enough to have parents able to help finance their high...

Saturday, June 27, 2015

US Homicide Rates

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From Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight:

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