Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

They're not being trained to forecast. They're being trained to read the data and interpret it.

What a lot of them find is they've bought a mule and it's supposed to be trained, so they climb on, and now they're not able to get it to do what they want it to do, ... The problem is generally not with the mule, it's with the rider.

Kenny got through the game remarkably well because he hasn't trained for the best part of two weeks. He has got a very sore groin which could put him out for a good month.

Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I prefer horror stories with mysterious elements that are chock-full of suspense.

The Fed has been on 'autopilot' with its monetary tightening so that even bouts of weaker data, such as we saw after hurricane Katrina, failed to divert the Fed off course. But now, following the minutes of the December meeting, it is clear that policy will become more data dependent.