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    Balances of trade understate their effects upon their nation's domestic production.

    Balances of trade understate their effects upon their nation's domestic production. Nation's balances of international trade are determined by the total net prices of their globally traded goods and service products which contribute to trade surplus nations' and reduce trade deficit nations'...
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    Can STATISTICS be RACIST?

    The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact.” But to fear a black person on the street more than a white person is a racial “stereotype”, “bred” into us ,so they say. It is true that Jesse Jackson confessed to the same fear. More importantly, that fear is a rational...
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    Government spending data and statistics

    Good post by Nate Silver on the growth of government spending and various breakdowns of the data: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-driving-growth-in-government-spending/
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    Statistics are not silly, but their users...

    Check out this fun read from Tim Harford on statistics and their users. It's an interesting and light read: http://timharford.com/2011/07/no-statistics-are-not-silly-but-their-users/
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