According to Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Chairman John Robbins, the report overstates the number of foreclosures.
Yet I think the Post article overstates the problem, and the risks scientists face.
As for No. 3, to say Ben Bernanke is "screwing up" monetary policy overstates.
Witness the screaming after a panel of economists suggested the consumer price index overstates inflation.
Instead, it looks at just the front end, and thus overstates the value of the deduction.
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And even that figure overstates the reality, since farmers usually protect only part of their crop.
Daniel Moynihan, D-New York, says the consumer price index overstates the cost of living between .7 and .2 percent.
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Gratzer respects Berwick's work but says he vastly overstates the ability of government.
But he overstates Islam's spread (there are perhaps 20m Muslims in Europe, just 4% of its current population of 500m).
But what if you think Shilling overstates the crisis or--God forbid--he is right but financial Armageddon is already priced into the market?
"This really overstates our recommendation, " Stein wrote to Schering-Plough executive John Strony.
Without going into all the accounting intricacies, LIFO understates inventory value, overstates the cost of sales, and therefore lowers reported earnings.
Arguing that South Korean accounting overstates some parts of debt ratios conveniently ignores that it understates others, especially secret debt-guarantees to subsidiaries.
In reality, I believe the notion that the market is overcompensating investors by 6 percentage points for default risk grossly overstates the case.
This measure somewhat overstates the actual burden faced per worker (since it includes the 12 percent of spending covered by beneficiary premium payments).
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He overstates Iran's ability to lead a Shia revival, largely because he discounts Iranian nationalism and the age-old enmity between Arabs and Persians.
But even if they were not, even if the above overstates the case, it is ertainly part of the solution to the observation.
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Tax cuts are likely more evenly distributed across states than are outlays, so our use of outlays likely overstates the unevenness of employment effects.
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He called for a panel that would come to grips with the Consumer Price Index, which most economists believe overstates inflation, and government checks.
Critics say the practice, also known as fair-value accounting, overstates losses.
Claims that there is no gap in college access for low-income students are based on a flawed analysis that understates college readiness and overstates enrollment figures.
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Proponents say chained CPI is a more accurate way to measure inflation than the way it's done now, which they say overstates growth in consumer prices.
In the narrow terms of biological reproduction--as distinct from the social and economic functions of the family--he only slightly overstates the case when he declares men superfluous.
The document overstates likely tax revenue by assuming that Congress will not extend relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax, even though it is sure to do so.
The movie overstates the insularity of both trailer parks and high-culture retreats, but Nicholson fuses it all with his electric awareness no one has better captured alienation in action.
This almost certainly exaggerates the actual cannibalization of book sales by libraries (consumer marketers know that self reported purchase intent notoriously overstates actual purchase behavior), but cannibalization does occur.
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If anything, the memo overstates what would be needed to stabilize the financial panic, but nearly all of the stimulus spending priorities that the memo deemed "feasible" made it into law.
Earlier today, President Obama released his 2012 tax return, and to be fair, suggesting that the President would even need a shoebox for his receipts grossly overstates the complexity of his return.
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In fact, Krugman and others have even suggested that the CPI itself overstates inflation and that the Fed would be better able to help the economy if less strict methodologies were used.
The account value dramatically overstates a policy's intrinsic value but these new regs severely limit factoring in the interplay of surrender charges, and this is why they often overstate a policy's market value.
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