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yurbud

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3. nobody cared to check their math because they were saying what the financial elite wanted to hear

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:38 AM

Apr 2013

they were arguing backwards from the conclusion they knew they had to come up with ahead of time if they wanted to get paid instead of have integrity and starve.

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The Excel Depression - Krugman's article re Rogoff and Reinhadt's Excel-lent 'Adventure' [View all] Bill USA Apr 2013 OP

You get brownie points for using the word "casuistry". Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2013 #1

I love me some Krugman; but ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2013 #2

O'Donnell is misinformed. Krugman and others had competing models showing no such thing CTyankee Apr 2013 #4

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2013 #6

well, I confess I didn't see O'Donnell, so I made the (incorrect) assumption that CTyankee Apr 2013 #7

Yeah ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2013 #8

Their math MFrohike Apr 2013 #9

I work at a University ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2013 #10

Amen MFrohike Apr 2013 #11

nobody cared to check their math because they were saying what the financial elite wanted to hear yurbud Apr 2013 #3

here's a link to Colbert's devastating treatment of the Reinhart - Rogoff Fraud .... Bill USA Apr 2013 #5