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Hasta la década pasada, Kendall Square, un barrio de Cambridge, Massachusetts, en las afueras de Boston, era un espacio más bien bohemio, con edificios intervenidos por artistas, bares, restaurantes étnicos y su complejo de cines especializado en películas independientes.

“Unbelievable jobs numbers… These Chicago guys will do anything,” Jack Welch tweeted. Not surprisingly, the recent steep drop in the unemployment rate has given rise to conspiracy comments and discussions about how the rate is derived.

A recent tweet by Jack Welch alleging that Friday’s jobs report was manipulated has sparked a ton of interest government data, and whether or not it is manipulated, or can be. In a recent Fiscal Times piece (via Reuters), economist Mark Thoma makes a good defense of US data quality, while noting at the end

The global economy is moving into a good old fashioned slowdown with the developed world’s policy options limited and investors nervous, putting the spotlight firmly on U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in the coming week to point the way ahead.

Falling price pressures around the world will allow central banks to increase their use of monetary stimulus to boost growth, according to MIT economics professor, Albert Cavallo. In an interview with Business Spectator, Cavallo said the world was now witnessing global disinflation. Indeed, there are now only three countries where inflation is not on a

For some reason I seem to be seeing a resurgence of inflation scare stories, despite the fact that — gas prices aside — inflation remains quiescent. And along with the scare stories come assertions that the inflation numbers are faked, that the government is hiding the true rate.

An extraordinarily elaborate deception may come back to haunt the government as the economy deteriorates HISTORY has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices.

IMAGINE a world without statistics. Governments would fumble in the dark, investors would waste money and electorates would struggle to hold their political leaders to account. This is why The Economist publishes more than 1,000 figures each week, on matters such as output, prices and jobs, from a host of countries.

IN THIS week’s print edition, we explain why we have decided to drop Argentina’s official inflation statistics and publish a private-sector estimate, State Streets’ PriceStats Index, instead.

An innovative partnership between academics at MIT Sloan Business School of Management and State Street Global Markets is helping investors gain valuable insights into inflation trends, using real-time price data gleaned from the web.