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 _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
