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For 40 Years, Real Cost of Thanksgiving Meal Price Remains Constant

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Serving as the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Thanksgiving economist in the 1990s was a pleasure.  The cost of food thirty years ago was generally good news, so there was no downside.  Unlike most of the more contested issues I worked … Continue reading →

Two Data Points Do Not a Trendline Make

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Economic information these days, influenced by election-year passions, spawned economic claims that do not represent actual underlying economic trends.  This post looks at the compelling nature of authentic data that does not have any meaningful forecasting value. Biomass Rules is … Continue reading →