“FRED” is the St.Louis Federal Reserve Economic Database. It is an excellent repository of economic data, currently boasting 45,000 time-series from 42 data sources. The web-site offers a powerful interface for creating charts of FRED data. Unfortunately, it is a little too powerful, offering a rather dangerous feature: the secondary axis.
I have railed against secondary axes before. They tend to lure the viewer into seeing spurious correlations....Read it at Stubborn Mule
The power and peril of FRED
by Stubborn Mule
right correlation does not mean causation ,rsp
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