On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 PM, John Williams<[email protected]> wrote:

> If he predicts a recovery every year, he may get lucky and be right
> sometime! Well, if he didn't permanently injure his hand patting
> himself on the back in his speech last Friday...Hey, look at me, I
> prevented another Great Depression! Reminds me of television's _Lost_
> -- entering the numbers into the computer, you can always say you were
> preventing the destruction of the world by your actions, as long as
> you scare people enough about what could happen that they don't ask
> for credible proof that it actually would happen without your actions.

If he was the only one saying that there was a problem you might have
a point, but as the vast majority of economists said that there was a
huge problem, it just sounds like sour grapes.

Doug

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