Michael Perelman wrote:
Although Bernanke had not shown much do distance himself from the Bushies
policy-wise. Before he got involved with Bush, I would never have guessed that
he
was anything but a middle of the roader. Anyway, in terms of economic
analysis, he
seems to be laying the groundwork for an interesting rethinking of the economy.
The
following two Wall Street Journal articles offer two examples:
Ip, Greg. 2007. "Policy Makers at Fed Rethink Inflation's Roots: Low
Unemployment
Now Is Believed to Play a Less Important Role." Wall Street Journal (26
February):
p. A 1.
.
And he noted that while these emerging economies have added to the global supply of
manufactured goods, they are also adding to the demand for oil and other
commodities."
Who's using oil, and who's using ALOT of it... a ...dynamic (animated if you
would) graph representation).
IBM, Courtesy of Insurgent American:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InsurgentAmerican/~3/98486358/
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find
patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a
new social kind of data analysis.
Here is a visualization of world wide oil consumption. The data is from
BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2006
<http://www.bp.com/statisticalreview>. Comment on the visuals here
<http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/S4ooTEsOtha6b6ETvCyUE2->.
The java plugin required to view this is available here for download
<http://www.java.com/getjava/>. (only if you have no java, or a terribly
outdate version, on your machine//lcm).
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/S4ooTEsOtha6b6ETvCyUE2-
