>_shrug_ will it work? I don't know. It really better The need to be able to field questions like these is why I feel we need open-source economic simultion pa

>_shrug_ will it work? I don't know. It really better The need to be able to field questions like these is why I feel we need open-source economic simultion packages. Does anyone think that people in the individual Fed reserve banks are running anything other than flat spreadsheets to model the financial system? Theyneed to develop economic modeling scripts (at minimum!) a field which is in its infancy. The datascience & modeling capability in HN would eclipse the forecasting power of an econometrics-focused Fed statistical modeling group. I briefly collaborated with a talented individual behind the Threadneedle economic simulation package. Here is her rubric on github for entering into this kind of work. https://github.com/jackymallett/Threadneedle/raw/master/Documentation/IntroToEconomicSimulation.pdf https://github.com/jackymallett/Threadneedle/raw/master/Docu... I'd like to see a python library devoted to economic modeling w/ classes for central banks, investent & retail banks, applied into umpteen think tanks' different competing models.