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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

Barry Ritholtz

Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. Or is anything economic Phil Gramm touches simply destined to be a dumpster fire of lies, foolishness, and incompetency? seconds to find 253,000,000 results on Google showing exactly how the government measures this. ” Was this ignorance? Sheer stupidity?

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. We analyzed the data, where are students performing, where are they not performing? How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RIEDER: Yeah. But I think the reason why they were too late is because, I mean, think about vaccine happened.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2022 | naked capitalism

CFO News Room

He’s got a nonprofit called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. And he calls this ’empiricism-washing;—where you take something that is a purely subjective, deeply troubling process, and just encode it in math and declare it to be empirical. It is math, but it’s practicing racial discrimination.

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