I will tell you this, though . . . it'd be nice to take a look at the 1990's recession. Before the government went crazy about cooking the numbers. I still think our amateur economists are talking out of their asses, but who am I to say?
I was on a blog elsewhere where people were talking about ShadowStats . . . his comment was, "by the time you refute it, they've posted the same BS ten times elsewhere."