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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Return of the Dredded Orange Bar


At FRED on the morning of the 22nd...


Uh-oh, I've seen the orange bar before. It means change is a-brewing at FRED.

That can't be good.

Hey, I clicked the thing. Got this:


Yeah, okay. Answered a few questions, skipped a few questions. Got this:


No good. I'm not allowed to skip questions. Even if I don't have an answer, I should make something up. That's what they want.

Oh, yeah, that's how you get valid responses.

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I can't wait to see how they fuck FRED up this time...

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

It's not a glitch. It's just FRED.

From the FRED blog I took their Bank Failures graph and added total (TCMDO) debt (red):


Thought it was odd that the red area was floating up above the horizontal axis. But whatever, it's not my graph. It's FRED.

I didn't want an area graph. Changed it to a line graph. Here's what I got:


The red line sank down and now starts below the x axis.

Weird. The numbers shouldn't change, when I change the style of the graph.