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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (114177)6/29/2009 10:17:16 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (2) of 543419
 
the kind that just spill forth with jarringly complicated but terribly persuasive observations

Persuasive in a subjective way for those who like him, but how many of his op-ed ideas and proposals have seen the light of day as actual policy? We have debated several here that clearly did not. Couple that with his political banana-peel skill set and you end up with someone who may be a good syndicated columnist and an expert in his particular narrow niches, but what else?

I still think economists will be losers in the whole financial crisis; few saw it coming, even fewer had rational policy recommendations to stave it off and once into the crisis, the profession has responded like a herd of cats on a meth binge, screeching off in every direction.
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