The Failure of Economics Statistics

The Failure of Economics Statistics
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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There is the reality all around us—restaurants struggling to survive, bills eating household income, jobs ever less secure, costs soaring for all enterprise, even the local dollar stores hitting hard times—and there are the macroeconomic statistics reported daily by the media. They seem to have ever less connection to each other.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]