[mad_as_he$$]

Horse pucky. We are in a depression. Every number published by the Government is massaged to appear as favorable as possible. Real unemployment is about 21% and climbing. The GDP numbers are crap and not real. Every statistic is “revised” later to make it appear to follow the predicted trend. The stock market is propped up by billions of taxpayer dollars every day and 0 is talking about another porkulus.

[IronJack]

This is the same kind of ivory-tower reasoning that “proves” bumblebees can’t fly.

Tell it to the 35 million people who don’t have jobs.

[dalereed]

Pure government bullshit!

Statistics: How to lie with figures and how yo make figures lie and to really lie use a graph!

[Erik Latranyi]

If anyone reads the article instead of posting against the headline, they would see that the author is challenging Paul Krugman’s assertion that it was gov’t spending that created some recovery, just like it did during the 1930s.

The author tears apart any comparison and even shows how gov’t spending in the 1930s was ineffective while increased unionization and higher taxes choked off the recover in 1937.

FReepers, please read the article before posting. The title has nothing to do with the substance.

[LibLieSlayer]

We are in a depression and we have been and all of the lies and lying charts prove nothing but those that rule with an iron fist are scared of the truth... they are destroyed... they just do not know it yet.

LLS

[kidd]

Title of posting doesn’t match title of article at the link.
The real title is simply
“Comparing 2011 with 1937”

[AlexW]

Statistics today mean nothing. It is “GIGO”.
Any child with a pencil can draw lines.

We have listened to the government, aided my the Marxist media
proclaim that the recession ended some time ago, and happy days are just around the corner.

The Communist are going to string the American morons along as long as they can, until it is too late.

[Flightdeck]

Was that monetary base curve a result of quantitative easing(s)?

[gitmogrunt]

My money's hidden in tin cans, and stuffed in my mattress.

Which way to the nearest Democrat soup kitchen?

[SwankyC]

the decline in the monetary base is likely to have been a reason for the slowdown in the 1930s

Is this guy saying that a decrease in the monetary base caused a recession?