Nobody I can find has asked this yet. So, here goes:
Why weren't the raw data kept up to date as part of the ongoing program? Anyone working with time series data knows you don't just add a new number to the end of a series at the end [...]
The only thing I find surprising about this essay is the author's apparent discomfort with the article's predictions. [...] 
I've just learned my childhood hero Steve Ditko is (a) alive and (b) a follower of Ayn Rand. You might call his masterpiece, "The Unchecked Premise," a comic book adaptation of the basic principles underlying Atlas Shrugged.' [...] 
Howard Dean:
If numbers like these can be trusted and substantiated, it is only a matter of time before the substance of the current debate shifts in a major alternate direction [...] 
California will issue IOUs instead of checks. Will they circulate? At what discount? Don't you just adore new and exotic forms of money?' [...] 
Cola has many uses. Here on YouTube we show cola to be the answer to a question that has not been asked.
Face it, the most fun TV commercials in the early days were those uncomfortable, cheap-suit car dealers who read the ads in strict monotone.
Those pesky, evil banks! Instead of using all that bailout money for lots of money-losing loans, they're strengthening balance sheets and rebuilding themselves into profitable (rather than money-losing) businesses.
Want to predict an Obama Stagflation without all that pain associated with New Business Cycle Theory and callibration-rather-than-estimation?
Perhaps it is sheer fantasy, but restoration of the Palestinian Authority on the basis of joint PA/Israeli economic interest seems a possibility. [...] 
In the European International Herald Tribune Dan Bilefsky evaluates Vaclav Klaus; this may be the first major news story based on twenty year old information from the communist secret police. [...] 
In California and Nevada struggling "underwater" homeowners are forestalling HDTVs until the post-Christmas sales, cutting back on DVD purchases (was 50 per month, now only one), and playing board games (but not monopoly). [...] 
You may want to compare the average auto industry salary with your own before deciding whether bailouts are justified.
DPI appears to be turning into a lagging indicator. As this chart from FRED shows, even though GDP grew, disposable personal income did not.
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