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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (67023)	4/16/2018 12:21:31 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 358093

Totally agree. One can have a flash of brilliance without being right about everything. I participate on a FB forum about Sowell, which last I heard had about 40000 members. It is broader than just Sowell, but he is the focus. And there are lots of discussions that get cranked up that the moderators have to shut down at 1000 or so comments. Far and away the busiest forum of that nature I have seen. Not a lot of respect for him around here but when get in a place where the people who really follow his work his popularity becomes apparent. (I had a friend who agreed to become a moderator and he had to quit because he said it was sucking up his enter days)

To: TimF who wrote (67023)	4/16/2018 12:07:07 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Respond to of 358093

The Peace Prize is bogus to me. Not just because of Obama but it had been for a long time. The Peace Prize has been dead to me since Arafat. The great piano competitions will, in some years, just find that no one in the competition is good enough to win it. They should do that with the Peace Prize. My instinct is if you look hard enough you can always find someone who really ought to have it, but it ought not to be a popularity contest to see who the class president is going to be. I feel almost the same about the Economics prize. When it started they were giving to "economic sciences" which is essentially econometrics. Back in the day, that restriction made sense. When I was in grad school the first time, my pay was for working with an econometrician and he carefully analyzed every variable for correlation and relevance and rationale, then carefully analyzed the residuals after the run, and decided what came next and what didn't make the cut. Before long, Watson will be able to just do all that stuff and decide which variables to use and give good reasons.