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A former fixed-income analyst with a bleak Sunday spreadsheet and the professional misfortune of reading the numbers first.
"The model was wrong. I reported that the model was wrong. That is not how anything works otherwise."
Business
Douglas Merritt runs the birth-account program forward to maturity, finds the donor's name was cut from the statement to save four tenths of a cent, and gets firmer forward guidance from a state textbook board than he has ever had from a central bank.
Business
The Sunday accuracy spreadsheet becomes a quarterly feature, and the column that hurts is the one counting how long a retracted number keeps getting quoted.
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A blue-ribbon panel of economists, most of whom voted against him, concluded that the tariff strategy produced results they cannot explain and refuse to endorse publicly.