Month: June 2013

All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Fascinating
June 5, 2013 0

All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Fascinating

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

IMF Halves Germany 2013 Growth Estimate; Still Too Optimistic
June 4, 2013 0

IMF Halves Germany 2013 Growth Estimate; Still Too Optimistic

By News Desk

IMF Halves Germany 2013 Growth Estimate; Still Too Optimistic With most of Europe in a nasty recession, and significant parts of it (Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy) in an outright economic depression, I wonder why it took so long for the IMF to Reduce Germany GDP Forecast . Germany’s 2013 growth prospects have been cut in half by the International Monetary Fund, as it warned that the outlook for Europe’s strongest economy could worsen if a eurozone recovery fails to materialise. The IMF said falling business investment and the eurozone’s ongoing recession, which have hampered German growth, meant the economy would grow by just 0.3pc this year, compared with an April estimate of 0.6pc