tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1868656607489458538..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: A Tale of Two Cities – Something Donald Luskin Must Not Have ReadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-53343835689076104502008-09-15T12:59:00.000-04:002008-09-15T12:59:00.000-04:00This column by Luskin must be one of the stupidest...This column by Luskin must be one of the stupidest by anybody claiming to be an economist for a long time. Nobody claims that we are now in anything like the Great Depression. What has been claimed is that some stats are worse than anything since the Great Depression, particularly the housing and banking situation, although in general the recession of 1974 still looks worse. Luskin's dismissal of the decline of employment is especially egregious.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-12028749895165317652008-09-15T08:38:00.000-04:002008-09-15T08:38:00.000-04:00Both Luskin and McCain woould do well to read Dick...Both Luskin and McCain woould do well to read Dickens well beyond Two Cities. Oliver Twist may provide a more accurate view of where we've been heading these past two decades. Yes, that includes Mr. Clinton, every one's favorite liberal Republican. Isn't that really what he represented. Georgie Boy simply built upon that move tow the right of center to take a more extreme position. Now McCain and the media jerks who earn their keep parroting the party line will tell us that we're living in Shangrila.<BR/>Now that was indeed a fantasy. Dickens is, on the other hand, deeply rooted in the reality of his time. We won't benefit by bringing back that era.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971442888151627894noreply@blogger.com