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...talking with the fans sitting next to me about how the Angels now remind us, more than any other team, of the Braves in the 90s. The guy, who as it turned out was Alan Autry (no relation to Gene, I think), regaled me with stories about going to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium while in Georgia shooting the TV show, “In the Heat of the Night,” to watch the Braves make their worst-to-first comeback...
...error around the data - and yet we routinely drop such nuance when we talk about economic variables in public conversation. "One of the things that gets lost is the fact that there are ways of trying to assess errors in forecasts," says Robert Eisenbeis, a former researcher at the Atlanta Fed who is now chief monetary economist at the money-management firm Cumberland Advisors. "It's possible to think about these forecasts not as 'GDP is going to be 0.6% this year' but as 'GDP is going to be 0.6% plus or minus something.' What's relevant...
...compensate is to pay attention to a broader range of forecasts. That's why there's no shortage of publishing and financial firms surveying groups of economists, presenting all of their opinions as "consensus" forecasts. A 2003 study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta found that the Blue Chip Consensus Forecast, which polls some 50 economists each month, is consistently better than any of its individual members. The researchers dubbed that result a "reverse Lake Wobegon effect": everyone was below average. During economic turning points - like the one we're currently in - the individual forecasts veered further...
...Yale University Law School. "They sent me a reply politely telling me that I needed my undergraduate degree first," she recalled. Instead she enrolled at Xavier University in New Orleans on a scholarship. She went on to attend medical school at both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine. She also holds an MBA from Tulane University...
...victims: Perhaps unsurprisingly, the nation's most congested area is greater Los Angeles, where travelers spend an average of 70 hours per year in traffic, wasting 53 gal. of fuel. Next up is greater Washington, at 62 hours; Atlanta rounds out the top three, at 57 hours. Of the areas studied, Wichita, Kans., and Lancaster, Calif., had the shortest delays, about six hours per year...