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No facts, no cold hard hard data, no references, all emotional hand-waving.
by danjayh 12y ago
No facts, no cold hard hard data, no references, all emotional hand-waving.
- jasonisalive 12y agoWelcome to popular economics!
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- jokoon 12y agoso ? you can't always measure everything. and actually there is one or two reference in there. I do like opinion pieces on economics.
- LiweiZ 12y agoA lot of fields can not be perfectly quantitated. Unfortunately, economics is one of them. And I think it's far away from that ideal. For fields like this, like jokoon said, opinion matters. edit: typo: quantized => quantitated
- zenogais 12y agoTotally agree, overall a presumptuous piece of conjecture and a weak justification of the present state of suffering experienced by millions (excluding the author I presume). It also struck me as originating from a highly US-centric view of the events in Latin America/Europe/Middle East. Low in nuance and meshing poorly with how the leadership of these countries understand and characterize their own economic/political dilemmas and decisions. It essentially assumes a "one right path for the world" and considers confused or invalid any deviation in discourse or policy. Also seems to perpetuate the old Colonialist chestnut - civilize the world (often directly against its will) at any price.
- cucumucz 12y agoyou put it well
- x0x0 12y agoUkraine too. Russia was subject to an enormous amount of provocation from the US, very little of which is reported. For an alternate view, the Russian President's office publishes his speeches in english; this [1] is worth reading. But whatever you think of Ukraine, just remember how we reacted when Russian put nukes on our doorstep. Yet the US government is happy to meddle in Ukraine, on Russia's doorstep, and is shocked, shocked! when Russian reacts very negatively. [1] http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/23137 http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/23137
- retrogradeorbit 12y agoAnother day, another hack, another story ignored by the main stream media: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-25/hacked-us-documents-said-reveal-extent-undisclosed-us-lethal-aid-ukraine-army http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-25/hacked-us-documents...
- peteretep 12y ago> No facts, no cold hard hard data, no references, all > emotional hand-waving. Come on, it warned you straight in the title with "An economist explains..."
- ommunist 12y agoI like that. Just my 5p. When economist explains - journalist listens and statistician laughs.