July 16, 2009
Economic Fundamentals
Stephen Gordon writes one of my favorite blogs on economics, and pointed out something interesting about what’s going to hit the news tomorrow. The CPI will be negative. This does not mean we’re headed for deflation. Brace yourself for stupid news articles in advance. As Dr. Gordon explains here: Tomorrow’s headline inflation number will be [...]
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February 2, 2009
Statistics
Here’s just one chart from a great big workbook of historical stats for Alberta. It’s the Consumer Price Index, set to 2002 as the zero year. It’s reported quarterly, with the first day of the quarter reported as the data point (i.e. April 1, 2002 is Q2 2002) Yes, this only goes up to the [...]
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