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		jcranmer on Feb 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index In finance, the data is all public, and the algorithms are all secret. In oil, the data is all secret, and the algorithms are all public.

emptybits on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

I smiled at this. But, as I'm sure you know, historic data is public in finance. There is good business in keeping current data private to sell it.

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