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"Tipping Points" go past the tipping point
A new form of statistical abuse has, these last few weeks, reared its ugly head. This may be dubbed the “false tipping point.”
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Crying over spilt crude
Last week a sharp fall in oil prices caught some commodity traders on the hop.The hedge fund Clive Capital lost $400 million in a day after Brent crude dropped in price by $16 a barr
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Inflation: turning up the heat
This isn’t a happy time to be involved with the production of national economic statistics.