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1StrongBlackMan

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2. I love me some Krugman; but ...

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:56 PM

Apr 2013

question (brought to mind by tonight's Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word):

Paul, if this report was the definitive argument stifling the anti-austerity argument hat you promote, why didn't YOU find the computational error? Was it because they wouldn't give you their numbers? That would have opened them up to a serious professional blast ... since no non-peered reviewed study is taken seriously.

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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