DSGE
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Around here people make up their own economic principles and then invent facts to support them and then devise cockamamie policies to implement these fantastic principles and then accuse politicians of being corrupt and incompetent for not following their advice.
This is no country for economists and rational thinkers.
Not with that attitude there isn't! Maybe we should be holding arguments here to a higher standard, rather than tolerating idiocy.
If by "we" you mean you and me then there is no "we".
By "we" I mean "people who post here in general".
Furthermore, this half of the non-existant "we" tolerates all manner of things on this highly redundant routed cesspool, including idiocy. As long as the moderators aren't destroying the board through rampant assfuckery and as long as net-thugs aren't threatening to come burn down my trailer I'm pretty happy.... 10 times better than 90% of the other message boards out there...
Well I'm not cool with that. If "Around here people make up their own economic principles and then invent facts to support them", I don't think a "you have your opinion and I have mine" attitude is helpful. If people are talking bullshit, call them on their bullshit. Yeah this forum is sometimes pretty good. But discussion between people who may disagree but are having an enjoyable conversation is frequently ruined by imbeciles who do exactly what you said. Why the hell would you have the attitude, "oh well, no country for rational thinkers". Do you not think it's better to have the attitude "You're full of shit, Edward. Shut the fuck up, I'm trying to talk to a person here who's not a total moron."?
I just think some of you (itfitzme, I'm talking to you) think that this is some afternoon study group. It isn't. This message board isn't really about "economics" - it's about policy and Wall Street.
Again, you think economic policy can be appraised without an understanding of economic theory?