December 2008
10 posts
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“Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain....”
– Larry Kudlow in the pages of the National Review, a master numberwanger in a numberwanger zoo.
Edge: THE OPIATES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES by Nassim... →
The Washington Monthly - Inhofe's scientists →
“That term “the economy”: what it means, in practice, is the Gross...”
– Our Phony Economy
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Stiglitz on getting the history of the financial... →
It includes some classic numberwangery:
No. 4: Faking the Numbers Meanwhile, on July 30, 2002, in the wake of a series of major scandals—notably the collapse of WorldCom and Enron—Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The scandals had involved every major American accounting firm, most of our banks, and some of our premier companies, and made it clear that we had serious problems with our...
“SIEGEL: We are in the home stretch though and many would consider you on the...”
– Karl Rove, famous numberwanger, on NPR.
