Economists advise the Government. In fact, working for the Government is a lot more interesting for an economist than working for a bank, the numbers are just so much bigger – and economists like big numbers. The bigger the numbers, the more accurate the statistics are and therefore, the more spectacular are the results.   [...]

We are noticing interesting anomalies between the ARIA charts and the P2P downloads.   This could be due to the old analogue methodology that purchased music is accounted for and subsequently reported on in the Aria physical media charts. i.e.: the results of weekly sales from 1100 record stores around Australia are collected on a [...]