UBS On-Air: Paul Donovan Daily Audio 'A lesson in why data are not dependable'

US Michigan consumer sentiment is due, including the inflation expectations reading. Is this useful information? It is not. The data will be distorted by frequency bias (there is more to life than food and fuel for the family fleet of SUVs, but that is pretty much all US households focus on for inflation). Political bias will also distort the data—Republicans think they are living in Weimar Germany, Democrats think inflation is under control.