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November 13, 2009

Falling U.S. oil production precedes rock & roll crisis

Overthinking It identifies the smoking gun in the declining quality of rock music. As you can see from his chart below, the number of songs making Rolling Stone's Top 500 Greatest Songs of all time falls off sharply right after American crude oil output begins declining in the 1960s. Coincidence?? That's what you naive zombies always say. You can't handle the truth.

Barry Ritholtz uses the chart to teach an elementary statistics lesson.

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Not naive zombies, but Rob Zombie fans!

Posted by: Barry Ritholtz | November 13, 2009 3:57 PM

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About Jay Hancock

Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Tuesdays and Sundays.

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