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And, Tom, you misinterpret my asking for background -- not as formal as credentials.


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Um, I think that at some point you have to reveal some of your own creds. I mean, the guy teaches at Princeton, writes for the NYT (not a shabby thing in itself) and has a Nobel prize**? On Keynes and the current thinking on stimulus vs. austerity, he's in agreement with the majority of economists -- 3 others of whom I can think of offhand with Nobels themselves. But to call him amateurish is pushing it a little unless you're also working at that level.


I guess there may be other ways to interpret this, but the way that I interpreted it is that you are saying that unless I have some comparable accomplishments in the field of economics, who the hell am I to call him amateurish? Did I miss your intent?

I will retort with a simple "you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" (apologies if I didn't get that exactly right).

so you are saying that I didn't make my case, but you aren't saying what you have a problem with.

Was it where I said that it was a mistake to equate the Dow Jones Industrial average with the overall economy? Something that Krugman clearly did in his article. Are you saying that you equate the DJIA with the economy?

Do you agree with Krugman where he equates paying off debt with savings?

Do you agree with Krugman that the reason that interest rates are too low is because there is too much saving going on?

You say that I haven't made my case, so tell me, which part of my argument do you disagree with.

sorry about not catching that the article you posted was satire. If it said "the onion", I would have got it.