I get ever more worried when someone steps up to a TV camera to announce
'the fundamentals are sound'. Somehow I hear 'prosperity is just around the
corner'. When the fundamentals are truly sound we don't have to repeat
again and again.
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From: Ed Weick
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Walker
Subject: Re: "the fundamentals are sound"
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 8:46AM
>One of the "fundamentals" is not having to deny the unsoundness of the
>fundamentals. To say that the "fundamentals are sound" is therefore to mean
>that they are not.
I can't leave this one alone. In political language, sound must mean
"noise" - i.e., sound as opposed light.
Ed Weick
