Stop citing statistical indicators that you do not understand

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In a previous blog post, I denounced the overuse and misuse of the GDP and CPI indicators. Today, I condemn two additional economic indicators: manufacturing output indices and productivity indices: My criticism is simple and harsh: these indices do not convey useful, objective information about the real world. There is no reasonable way to mash together numbers with different units – such…

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