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To: tejek who wrote (247667)	8/26/2005 4:27:46 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 1572506

The lefties at Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis banned me after I posted Krugman’s admission that his letie “facts’ were wrong. LOL ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (35963) 8/26/2005 12:19:39 AM From: paret Read Replies (1) of 36034 Summer Of Our Discontent (Krugman Forced To Issue Corrections! HA!) New York Times ^ \| 8/26/05 \| Paul Krugman For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy. After all, they point out, numbers like the growth rate of G.D.P. look pretty good. So why aren't people cheering? (snip) Corrections: In my column last Friday, I cited an inaccurate number (given by the Conyers report) for turnout in Ohio's Miami County last year: 98.5 percent. I should have checked the official state site, which reports a reasonable 72.2 percent. Also, the public editor says, rightly, that I should acknowledge initially misstating the results of the 2000 Florida election study by a media consortium led by The Miami Herald. Unlike a more definitive study by a larger consortium that included The New York Times, an analysis that showed Al Gore winning all statewide manual recounts, the earlier study showed him winning two out of three. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ... Message 21639353