Mostly: Classical

[Frank Pembleton]

Juiced Data
By Barry Ritholtz


This week's letter comes to us from my friend Barry Ritholtz, Chief Market Strategist of the Maxim Group and a frequent guest on CNBC and Fox. I have been reading his commentary for several years and he now keeps a Blog called The Big Picture.

The following is a combination of two commentaries about government economic numbers. It is hard to rely on statistical numbers if the government periodically decides to change how they are calculated and Barry takes a look at several statistics. Plus he shows how data can be graphically presented to make the same numbers look completely different, one way positive and the other negative. This is certainly Outside the Box material I hope you enjoy.

- John Mauldin

http://www.investorsinsight.com/otb_va_print.aspx?EditionID=169