Federal Reserve officials have said countless times they take a “data-dependent approach” to their policy decisions, including their current conundrum of when to slash interest rates. But what if the ...
Data revisions or political data manipulation? When revised data support the in-group’s political policies, members of the out-group sometime allege that the numbers were cooked for partisan advantage ...
Large downward revisions to monthly jobs data in recent weeks put a gigantic spotlight on an incredibly typical procedure for economic data. They also spurred something highly atypical, with President ...
A comprehensive data revision shows the amount of pandemic-era excess savings still available in the U.S. economy may be larger than previously estimated—and is likely to last into the first half of ...