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In the Matter of Lisa Cook
- palmfacehn 1y ago[flagged]
- happytoexplain 1y agoThe two supposedly equivalent economic strategies you're referring to sound like things an honest person could believe have different consequences - i.e. you would have to take a bad-faith interpretation to force a "hypocrite" label.
- palmfacehn 1y agoHonest people might also recognize the malign incentives baked into the process of centrally planning interest rates for an economy. https://www.google.com/search?q=cantillon+effect https://www.google.com/search?q=cantillon+effect https://www.google.com/search?q=economic+calculation+problem https://www.google.com/search?q=economic+calculation+problem
- zosima 1y ago[flagged]
- JKCalhoun 1y ago> I don't know if Trump can fire her. But obviously everyone who cares for officials being competent, would hope that he can. No, not at all. As Krugman concludes, it's much, much more important that we are still a nation of laws.
- know-how 1y ago[dead]
- justinsaccount 1y agoAre we firing everyone that is incompetent now, or just the ones that are claimed to be "DEI hires" ?
- like_any_other 1y agoThose allegations (the academic ones. The mortgage fraud case looks thin at best) look very damning and credible. Yet literally none are even mentioned on her wikipedia page, or any "reliable source", despite being trivial to independently verify. Odd.
- palmfacehn 1y agoI can easily imagine how that would play out on the "Talk" page of the Wikipedia article.
- y-curious 1y agoI brushed off the "DEI hire" stuff as typical rhetoric but this is the first time I feel that it may be justified. My brain went to, "well, we all make mistakes in academia and grow up in the industry" at first. Then I realized these papers are from 11 years ago, and she's no spring chicken.
- SirFatty 1y agoPosted in the wrong place, I'm guessing?
- nutjob2 1y agoIt's funny, because people don't level the same accusations against white people, or can't, by definition. Any use of 'DEI hire' is racist, because it assumes incompetence by default for one group but not for another.
- y-curious 1y agoYeah, you're right. I won't level that accusation, but I will rephrase to say "I did not believe the accusations of incompetence and now I do"
- xerp2914 1y agoThe whole DEI/incompetence accusation is pretty rich if you look at the people Trump has appointed? From Twitter influencers to Fox News hosts - it's the most unqualified cabinet in American history.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWho else is incompetent based on this metric?
- y-curious 1y agoI don't know, I have a pretty pale view of politicians in general. Probably 90% of them? Hackernews treating me like I'm a MAGA #1 fan because I judged someone disliked by the right is a good reminder to stay out of political discussions online
- SirFatty 1y ago"Trump says that she committed mortgage fraud.." That's rich...
- JohnTHaller 1y agoFraud recognizes fraud?
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoFraud removing fraud from office because of fraud might ought to think twice...
- cosmicgadget 1y ago> But even the Court specifically carved out protections for Fed governors, saying that they can only be removed “for cause.” And soon we will find out if this was a warning or a recommendation.