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Talk:Financial Crisis of 2008 (view source)
Revision as of 10:48, December 23, 2008
, 10:48, December 23, 2008NBEr is solid and highly regarded by conservatives (like Friedman)
:I've given you a great deal of latitude due to the many edits you have made on this site and I believe that should be rewarded by allowing you to have a pretty free reign in how to set up the article and put in content. In my book you've earned that. But it doesn't appear you have fit any of the information that I have given you in the talk pages into the article. If it is going to start to read like a blog, then I am going to get more directly involved. And simply reverting me, including editing that went beyond what is being discussed here, is not a direction you should follow. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 05:27, 23 December 2008 (EST)
:I've given you a great deal of latitude due to the many edits you have made on this site and I believe that should be rewarded by allowing you to have a pretty free reign in how to set up the article and put in content. In my book you've earned that. But it doesn't appear you have fit any of the information that I have given you in the talk pages into the article. If it is going to start to read like a blog, then I am going to get more directly involved. And simply reverting me, including editing that went beyond what is being discussed here, is not a direction you should follow. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 05:27, 23 December 2008 (EST)
::economists, conservative and liberal alike, have been using the NBER business cycle dating since the 1920s. Milton Friedman, for example, did much of his best work for them, such as his famous "Monetary History". The "two-quarters" rule of thumb usually works and has the advantage that it comes out sooner. But it is not quite as reliable since the GDP data is just one of many indicators. The NBER uses the GDP data (which is ambiguous) as well as many other time series. The advantage is that it's quite non-partisan (unlike politicized government agencies). CP readers should be shown what the most reliable sources are for economic data. That's the NBER and I'm not sure what the aleternative is--no one has proposed some other authoritative source. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 05:48, 23 December 2008 (EST)