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|content=The moral of the story to me is this: | |content=The [[Morals|moral]] of the story to me is this: | ||
We can’t have outside folks calculating and theorizing while the inside economists are fudging and cooking the books. | We can’t have outside folks calculating and theorizing while the inside economists are fudging and cooking the books. | ||
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|content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous claims. | |content=One of the things my trolls like to point to is outrageous claims. | ||
One of my most *outrageous* is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics | One of my most *outrageous* is that my joint work on a 2nd Marginal Revolution for economics was scuttled by the Harvard Department of Economics [[Boskin Commission|Boskin Commissioners]]. | ||
Yet it’s admitted: | Yet it’s admitted: | ||
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|content=In any event, I stand by my claim. The | |content=In any event, I stand by my [[Claims|claim]]. The [[Boskin Commission]] was organized by Moynihan and Packwood to deliberately break the [[CPI]] in a precise amount to avoid the US paying 1 trillion dollars over 10 years. | ||
And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this. | And I promise you no leading economist will call bullshit to debate this. | ||