Charts That Scare Wall Street

Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by cvgraham on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:47PM (#12812885)

We should note the selection bias here. The author specifically asked economists for graphs that would "scare" them as part of a halloween themed post. So we are only getting the curated "scariest" charts someone could take out of all the macroeconomic data out there and not a real opinion of what they think of the market as a whole.

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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by necessity on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:20AM (#12814532)

Then it's not selection bias, it's just the selection criteria.

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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by misja111 on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:13AM (#12813724)

Exactly. Scary headlines sell. Nobody would read an article that announces that everything looks normal and nothing spectacular is going on.

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Re:Charts That Scare Wall Street by ianai on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:32AM (#12814315)

I think the give away was how many of them focus on the UK.

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