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Our own BB (John Cochrane) on NPR
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:27:27 -0700, DRN wrote:
I was startled awake by John's voice from the clock-radio, discussing nuclear strikes on fox-holes and other scary things. Meant to post immediately here, but I pulled a pillow over my head and forgot about it... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95143166 Interesting piece. I learnt today that apparently the Federal Reserve has nothing remotely as sophisticated as weather forecasting models to forecast the financial future, just a Dell workstation using Mathlab to solve a set of 20 simultaneous equations to model the US economy. This does not specifically model the financial services sector and has no real- time feed or historic database of financial data. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...economy_model/ for more detail. I now return you to our regular program. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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Our own BB (John Cochrane) on NPR
"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message ... On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:27:27 -0700, DRN wrote: I was startled awake by John's voice from the clock-radio, discussing nuclear strikes on fox-holes and other scary things. Meant to post immediately here, but I pulled a pillow over my head and forgot about it... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95143166 Interesting piece. I learnt today that apparently the Federal Reserve has nothing remotely as sophisticated as weather forecasting models to forecast the financial future, just a Dell workstation using Mathlab to solve a set of 20 simultaneous equations to model the US economy. This does not specifically model the financial services sector and has no real- time feed or historic database of financial data. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...economy_model/ for more detail. I now return you to our regular program. I have heard that the reason we have economists is to make weather men look good. Wayne http://www.soaridaho.com/ |
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Our own BB (John Cochrane) on NPR
On Oct 3, 11:46*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message ... On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:27:27 -0700, DRN wrote: I was startled awake by John's voice from the clock-radio, discussing nuclear strikes on fox-holes and other scary things. Meant to post immediately here, but I pulled a pillow over my head and forgot about it... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95143166 Interesting piece. I learnt today that apparently the Federal Reserve has nothing remotely as sophisticated as weather forecasting models to forecast the financial future, just a Dell workstation using Mathlab to solve a set of 20 simultaneous equations to model the US economy. This does not specifically model the financial services sector and has no real- time feed or historic database of financial data. See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...economy_model/ for more detail. I now return you to our regular program. I have heard that the reason we have economists is to make weather men look good. Waynehttp://www.soaridaho.com/ I think it's probable that John Maynard Keynes was a weather man first, but couldn't sell the notion that he could control the weather. -T8 |
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