The Monsters of Finance XNecromancers

Necromancer · No. 07 of 10

Adam Ozimek

@ModeledBehavior

Economist who revives forgotten labor data and uses it to end policy arguments.
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What makes a Necromancer

Necromancers dig. They pull a forgotten series out of a Census table or a filing appendix, chart it, and suddenly everyone's quoting a number nobody had looked at in years.

The other necromancers

Bring dead data back to life.

  1. No. 01: Charlie Bilello@charliebilello

    Digs decades of total-return data out of the archive and turns it into the chart everyone forwards.

  2. No. 02: John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch

    FT's chief data reporter, who pulls buried statistics out of old tables and puts them on the front page.

  3. No. 03: Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600

    Demographer who digs up forgotten census data and turns it into the map everyone reposts.

  4. No. 04: Jeroen Blokland@jsblokland

    Multi-asset strategist who drags hundred-year-old data series back to life and fits them into one chart.

  5. No. 05: Joey Politano@JosephPolitano

    Rebuilds the whole economy from Census tables nobody else has opened in years.

  6. No. 06: Mike Zaccardi@MikeZaccardi

    Pulls the one overlooked series out of each data release and has it charted before the open.

  7. No. 08: Ziad Daoud@ZiadMDaoud

    Bloomberg's chief EM economist, who turns the messiest emerging-market data into one readable chart.

  8. No. 09: Brooke DiPalma@BrookeDiPalma

    Reports consumer spending from the receipt up, so she knows what America really spent on lunch.

  9. No. 10: Kathryn Anne Edwards@keds_economist

    Labor economist who unearths the household data the headlines left buried.