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1StrongBlackMan

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8. Yeah ...

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 09:36 PM

Apr 2013

I saw their response ... kind of weak, IMHO.

There is a reason that academic studies are peer-reviewed before they are given any credence by anyone that wants to avoid embarrassing citiations.

When I was in Grad school, my mentor give me two research "shortcuts", when a attempting to write on a topic that one is not intimately familiar with: First, go to Wiki, but ignore the text ... go to the peer reviewed citations; secondly, use the peer reviewed citation as your research starting point.

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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