FRED on “Spurious Correlations” - InvestingChannel

FRED on “Spurious Correlations”

This is pretty funny.  From the St Louis Fed.  No comment necessary: “Relationships between macroeconomic time series are not usually straightforward enough to establish with a simple graph. The problem is that almost all time series tend to grow in the long term as an economy grows. So, any measure in nominal terms will grow even […]

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