There are now active concentration camps in the United States, designed to traumatize children, because Wikileaks bolstered Trump's campaign to make HRC appear destined for prison.
And people who can't hold him accountable for his role in that, "can get fucked".
Every source I can find on google shows clearly that they aren't new to the Trump administration, though often more populated than they were under the Obama administration.
But they all defeat the causal relationship you asserted in your comment.
> At one point does policy targeting a statistical measurement render that statistic useless?
When the statistic is a proxy for a quantity of interest, and when policy exploits ways of manipulating that proxy without commensurate change in the underlying quantity of interest. My driving policy of targeting my speedometer does a fine job of controlling my vehicle's speed even though the former is just a potentially-inaccurate measurement.
In the case of the CPI (actually the PCE for the US Fed [1]), the quantity of interest is the "[nominal] cost of living." To the extent the CPI doesn't in fact measure the cost of living, the easy solution is to change to a price index that does measure the cost of living. Since living tends to involve buying and consuming things, a price index, suitably defined, can be a fine measure of this.
To the extent you are concerned about the exact ways in which the CPI is computed, independent measurements [2] generally reproduce the broad trends in US data, which in turn suggests there is no significant manipulation by the BLS.
It certainly would help but not any of the other issues that relate to the industrial complexes, the Landlord-Rental-Development complex, along with other parts of the finance complex.
The government can’t even protect us from a known carcinogen - RoundUp. And we’re suppose to just trust them when it comes to vaccines and their side effects? Most anti-vaccine people I know don’t doubt it protects from a specific virus. They question the side effects and secondary impacts vaccines can cause to the body. Just like there’s no doubt that RoundUp is an effective pesticide — but that’s not the issue, is it?
Sorry, my comment must not conform to the hackernews groupthink. If you think some vaccines don’t have significant side effects, you’re also not very smart (as so many comments are stating anti vacciners are).
Goldman valued WeWork at $60B, as part of their sales pitch to lead the IPO. The context makes all the difference since the point of that valuation was to aid a sales pitch, not be an accurate assessment.
This is incorrect. They pitched this at $60b but couldn't get a bookbuild at that price which never happens.
The key distinction with pitching to lead to the IPO is they sought to find investors (as opposed to wework management) at this price too, but not enough people bit to fill the raise.
Softbank and WeWork reminds me painfully of the episode of Entourage I watched last night, where the boys are pitching their as-yet unseen prestige film at Cannes. Hyped to the extreme, on the verge of pulling a deal to make a boatload of money, but on closer inspection it's a huge stinker that falls apart disastrously.
Matt Levine made the point that to get chosen as one of the IPO banks, you had to pitch to WeWork that you could get them a good-yet-plausible valuation. I.e., take what their last (private) valuation was, and bump it up by a decent amount. Once you're selected, of course, then reality can take over.
Fuck you.