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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think I've shown that Reynolds is a hack, if being a hired gun for Cato on this issue isn't enough. Meanwhile, you call Krugman a "whore," though I haven't mentioned him. Krugman is paid by the NYT and Princeton University. Who do you think funds Cato?
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Are you kidding? I trust the CATO institute much more than the NYT or anything put out by Princeton. And you think the WSJ Oped page is less ridiculous that the NYT's op ed page? I trust stuff more coming out of the local High School Newspaper than the NYT.
Sebby is right on about this stuff. When you talk about inequality statistics you have to get right down to the numbers. Not summaries or conclusions based on numbers because the statistics are just way to easy to manipulate. The definitions and concepts are all way to vague.
You want to show me that the "gap is widening", or inequality is becoming more prounced (and both of the phrases are open to huge interpretation differences) then only the hard numbers, and where they come from, really have any relevence.
