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The history of counting the beans of any economy starts with Leontif and Tinbergen back around the vicinity of World War II.

On from that was a giant of economics at Pennsylvania, Lawrence Klein.

He's the one that invented how we figure out what the U.S. economy is doing.

He was the first doctoral candidate of the giant Paul Samuelson.

It devolves down many years later to the Blue Chip Award.

Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley, did something extraordinary. She put together four years of

data at Morgan Stanley and did it with the smallest standard

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