Hyper­in­fla­tion Spe­cial Report (2011) [Shadow Gov­ern­ment Sta­tis­tics]

A detailed look at what’s likely to hap­pen to the econ­omy in the near future. The site where this is posted takes var­i­ous promi­nent government-published sta­tis­tics that are widely accepted as reflect­ing the state of the econ­omy, and deter­mines what they would be based on the way the gov­ern­ment used to cal­cu­late them in the past before chang­ing them to hide the true eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion from the chumps voters.

A while back I had to turn off com­ment­ing on my weblog after the anti-spam plu­gin I had been using stopped work­ing with newer Word­Press ver­sions. About a month ago I started using the Akismet plu­gin, which made it pos­si­ble to turn com­ment­ing back on. One of the fea­tures of Akismet is a dis­play of total spam and total real com­ments over time, and accord­ing to that dis­play for the month of July (the first full month that I used it) my weblog received 489 spam com­ments and two real comments.