Two series that should have nothing to do with each other
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GLOVIZ picked Inflation, CPI annual rate JPN from International Monetary Fund and CO2 per capita FRA from Our World in Data, paired them on time, and found a correlation of -0.638 over 15 matched observations. Two different institutions, two different measurement programmes, no shared mechanism. That is the point: with a thousand series, coincidences are cheap.
Inflation, CPI annual rate JPN and CO2 per capita FRAInternational Monetary Fund against Our World in Data · Insights opens on load
Sources: International Monetary Fund, Our World in Data
The same two, plotted against each other15 matched points · trend line open
Sources: International Monetary Fund, Our World in Data