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by rascul 1615 days ago
> There's these things called citations, there's tons of them throughout the piece, those pieces further cite primary sources for the data.

The author cites his own blog, which also cites his own blog. Almost all the citations in his blog are to his own blog. One single link in the article did not go to his own blog but instead went to a video at reason.com. This is not a pattern which gives confidence in the material.

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First, Dan Mitchell is a primary source. Second, many of the pieces source BLS data or similar entities.