Who is econdataus and why should we believe him?
Yesterday, I received an interesting question from Michael Fremer who has a blog at this link . Following is his question: I sent my right wing friends some of your analyses and they gulp, but then respond "Who is econdataus and why should we believe him?" And i can't answer that... Can you? My reply (with a few edits for readability) was as follows: In regards to "who is econdataus", you can tell them that I am nobody they would know. I am a math major and software engineer. As I mention in my profile , I became interested in U.S. budget and economic matters back in 1992, the first time that I remember the debt becoming a major issue in a presidential election. Around that time, I became aware of more and more cases where public political discussion seemed to be based on bad or incomplete data. Hence, my first goal was to build a site with carefully compiled and sourced data in the areas in which I was interested. This gives me (and hopefully others) a re...