Re: [PEN-L] and you think economic forecasting is bad?

[Joel Blau]

I don't want to get into debate on a left economics list serve about Tom Friedman's psychological state. All I can say is that like anyone else, he would prefer to be right, and when the evidence mounts that he is not, he gets increasingly anxious and defensive about his prognostications. That is why the day he might actually have to admit he was so hugely and catastrophically wrong is always six months off.

Joel Blau

Sandwichman wrote:

On 5/16/06, Joel Blau < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

since the invasion, but Friedman is so deeply invested in the enterprise
that can't publicly reconcile himself with the magnitude of his own
failure. So he keeps on muttering manana...

I think you overestimate him. Friedman doesn't have any psychological investment in his mutterings. He's just a just a mountebank doing his patter. As long as it brings in the suckers, he gets his paycheque.

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Sandwichman