April 2010

The Mule trips up

21 April 2010

In my last post, I fell into a common trap when dealing with financial time-series data: I did not adjust for inflation. This post fixes that by looking at growth in “real” personal consumption in the US.

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Has the US consumer shaken off the financial crisis?

19 April 2010

American consumers appear to be returning to their traditional role of fueling the global economy as consumption shows strong growth for the fifth month in a row.

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Mule Stable update

9 April 2010

I have been working on some tweaks to the Mule Stable discussion forum for a few weeks and yesterday the new site went live. As well as upgrading to the lastest version of the StatusNet software, I moved the Stable to its very own domain name: mulestable.net. The old name stable.stubbornmule.net was a bit too […]

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