Bond Outlook May 14th

The data used to calculate LIBOR may be improved by threatening the participating banks, but how can we deal with official statistics which have been creatively manipulated for decades?

Bond Outlook [by bridport & cie, May 14th 2008]

In a week of “more of the same”, i.e. a continuing series of bad news with little impact on the rather sanguine mood of financial markets, we have an opportunity to consider the reliability of the economic data given to us, or should we say, “served up”? We have long criticised the focus on core inflation as a means of producing lower inflation data by excluding food and energy.

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