Today's big question: Just how stupid is Andrey Dashkov of Casey Research?

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This month's Casey International Sheeptator rag included a macro overview of Peru written by the babyfaced Andrey Dashkov, the very same dumbass who recently won the coveted award here at IKN for penning one of the worst overviews of Colombia I'd ever seen. His effort this month on Peru was, unsurprisingly, in the same pisspoor category and showed that not only has he little idea about the place but he has no clue about the basics of the subject he tries to fake expertise about, either. This chart from the note.....

......was presented to his readers as "Peruvian exports". When I saw it the immediate first thought was "HUHH???" cos anyone that has even a passing interest in Peru's economy knows that for the longest time metals exports have been roughly 60% of the country's total, not the 80% presented by the dumbass Dashkov.

Then it struck me what he'd done wrong. It took about 15 minutes to put together this chart that shows the real story (I've even tried to be cute and used the same colour-coding as the Caseyfools, bar the green of course):

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Yep, this Dashkov completely missed out all non-traditional exports! What must have happened is that he finds some dataset or other marked "traditional exports" and is so uneducated about the terms used in country economies that he doesn't even realize that traditional exports are not the whole ballgame....not by a long chalk. I mean, the next time you eat a grape grown in Peru, or wear something made of Peruvian cotton (the third best quality cotton in the world according to those that know about these things) according to Casey Research (word "research" used in the loosest terms possible) it didn't actually come from Peru. Those and a whole mountain of other products, ignored by the ignorant.

This dumbass Dashkov misses out 20% of everything Peru exports! Jeesh! And not only that, the whole editorial team at Caseyfools didn't spot something that would take anyone with an inkling about a nanosecond to spot. But hey...it's Casey. Do you really expect truth and accuracy from these shills?

Meanwhile, Andrey Dashkov has managed to make himself look verysillyperson over his lack of nous about first Colombia and now Peru. I wonder which country he's going to be allowed to butcher next?