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FreeTrade w/o Kaldor Hicks Transfers</br>
FreeTrade w/o Kaldor Hicks Transfers</br>
'''ā€œGreat Moderationā€'''</br>
[[Great Moderation|ā€œGreat Moderationā€]]</br>
Student Loans w/o Bankruptcy</br>
Student Loans w/o Bankruptcy</br>
Employer Tethering of H1B</br>
Employer Tethering of H1B</br>
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|content=I didn’t know you did impressions! Not really sure. Guessing Timothy Geithner explaining the '''great moderation''' of pre-2007? Marty Feldstein on laissez faire? Greenspan on self correcting markets? Brad Delong on NAFTA? Madoff on investing? Krugman on internet commerce?
|content=I didn’t know you did impressions! Not really sure. Guessing Timothy Geithner explaining [[Great Moderation|the great moderation]] of pre-2007? Marty Feldstein on laissez faire? Greenspan on self correcting markets? Brad Delong on NAFTA? Madoff on investing? Krugman on internet commerce?
I give. Who?
I give. Who?
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|content=Take the current totally synthetic &amp; transparent push for ā€œauthoritative sourcesā€. Such sources would be the ones warning in 2005 that the ā€œGreat Moderationā€ was a lie &amp; that a crash loomed. Someone like @nntaleb. Yet they mean the opposite. They mean cheerleaders like @nytimes.
|content=Take the current totally synthetic &amp; transparent push for ā€œauthoritative sourcesā€. Such sources would be the ones warning in 2005 that the [[Great Moderation|ā€œGreat Moderationā€]] was a lie &amp; that a crash loomed. Someone like @nntaleb. Yet they mean the opposite. They mean cheerleaders like @nytimes.
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|content=Student Debt, PATRIOT Act, Diversity &amp; Inclusion Oaths, Rollback of Mandatory Requirement, Epstein Suicide, Andrew Yang primary coverage, 1619 Project, Coordinated Bans by Tech Platforms, University Tuition Hike Explanations, STEM worker shortages despite wage mechanism..
|content=Student Debt, PATRIOT Act, Diversity &amp; Inclusion Oaths, Rollback of Mandatory Requirement, [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein Suicide]], Andrew Yang primary coverage, 1619 Project, Coordinated Bans by Tech Platforms, University Tuition Hike Explanations, [[Labor Shortages|STEM worker shortages despite wage mechanism]]..


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|content=A weird way to describe String Theory, Neoclassical Economics, Critical Theory, The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Public Health, Trust &amp; Safety, Mainstream Media, The Fed, Peer Review, The Great Moderation, Cancel Culture and Political Polling...but ya know what? He’s right. It works!
|content=A weird way to describe [[String Theory]], Neoclassical Economics, Critical Theory, The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Public Health, Trust &amp; Safety, Mainstream Media, The Fed, [[Peer Review]], [[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]], Cancel Culture and Political Polling...but ya know what? He’s right. It works!
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=== 2022 ===
=== 2022 ===


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|content=You’re not being truthful about economics.
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I’m sorry. But at a purely technical level, you are just not being truthful about markets, economics and economists. I say this without an axe to grind as a huge promoter of your earlier work when you were trying to understand the šŸŒŽ.
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|content="I've never seen anything as bad as the determination of a lot of people to say it's a recession," Krugman said. "It's above and beyond anything I've ever seen." -@paulkrugman
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Would you like to talk about the [[Boskin Commission]] &amp; the @BLS_gov pretending to move to a COLA for [[CPI]]?
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|content=Even top economists are struggling to explain perhaps "the weirdest economy" Americans have ever lived through, CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/media/economy-paul-krugman-reliable-sources/index.html
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|content=Would you be interested in discussing an entire field of economic experts laughing for 5-8 years at those of us who tried to warn the world about the impending danger of Mortgage Backed Securities during the '''ā€œGreat Moderationā€'''?
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|content=Would you be interested in discussing the treatment of [[Borjas Rectangle Theory|George Borjas]] by economists for pointing out that Immigration actually carries costs &amp; redistributes wealth rather than a miracle free lunch that simply cannot do anything harmful?
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Etc. Etc.
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Because that is all much worse.
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|content=Putin has *never* used nukes (or other unconventional WMD weapons) in war before. In my estimation, that’s very important to remember when trying to figure out to whom we now should turn for our analyses. As per the above. #MSM
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|content=We had no experience in having 4 planes simultaneously highjacked by suicidal jihadis. So it wasn’t worth worrying about.
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We hadn’t had a worldwide pandemic w/ lockdowns for ages so it wasn’t going to happen.
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We banished volatility in the '''Great Moderation''' so that wasn’t a risk.
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|content=Which is why we got:
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Low Energy Spacetime Supersymmetry
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Superlative Index Numbers replacing the Konus Index
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Contradictory directives on Masks
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'''ā€œThe Great Moderationā€''' before 2008
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[[Labor Shortages|Labor Shortages claimed in Market Economies]]
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Vioxx
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Anti-Biological Redefinitions of Gender
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[[Peer Review|The Reproducibility Crisis in Peer Reviewed Literature]]
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Citation Cartels
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An admonition to ask no questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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The Death of Sociobiology at the hands of Marxists
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40 yrs of modern [[String Theory]]
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70 years of [[Quantum Gravity]]
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The food pyramid
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|content=For people not in the scientific world: ā€œdebateā€ is not something that generally happens. Instead, scientists give talks, present posters at conferences, and publish, all of which offer opportunities for peer review, critiques, and discussion of the data or its interpretation.
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* [[Consensus]]
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