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I don’t like this figure, nor the article it was copied directly from in the WSJ (which I believe was recently discussed here, archive link = https://archive.li
by derstander 3y ago
I don’t like this figure, nor the article it was copied directly from in the WSJ (which I believe was recently discussed here, archive link = https://archive.li/nzdtv https://archive.li/nzdtv).
Why don’t I like it? “Source: International Monetary Fund” !! Fantastic. That’s like quoting a scientific breakthrough and saying Source: MIT. Which of the many artifacts they’ve recently released did it come from? I scrolled through the first three or four pages of IMF pubs, checked all of the titles that I thought may have contained the figure or similar data but no dice.
Is it too much to ask for a standard citation including the publication title and date, too?
I went looking because another comment suggested that maybe Brexit made the Eurozone numbers look particularly bad. But I don’t think that’s the case: the WSJ article particularly calls out UK citizens as similarly being worse off.
But after all that looking I couldn’t ultimately tell you whether or not the Brexit hypothesis is correct.