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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell — “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.”
And of course the classic one of all is the 'assume a horizontal demand curve' used in neo-classical economics to help show that competitive firms are better than monopolies.
Debunked beautifully by Steve Keen in his latest lecture:
Right, all they have done is switched funds from sale of their exports from their reserve account at the Fed to their savings account at the Fed, which is what tsys effectively are. When the tsys mature, the funds will be switched back to their reserve account and they can roll them over into new tsys if they wish.
And of course the classic one of all is the 'assume a horizontal demand curve' used in neo-classical economics to help show that competitive firms are better than monopolies.
ReplyDeleteDebunked beautifully by Steve Keen in his latest lecture:
http://youtu.be/jiJMzDtGOlE
Nice article.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Will is a liar. He says that we owe China $2 trillion but does understand that the Chinese have already been paid.
ReplyDeleteIt's done deal, the money is in their treasury accounts.
How can such a "conservative" journalist be taken for real ?
For every dollar spent on Chinese imports by American consumers, most of it goes into the Chinese account at the US Treasury.
So as for manipulating graphs, how about actually swapping graphs out entirely ?
ReplyDeleteCan Chinese "debt" be figured in since the Chinese have already been paid ?
Isn't that completely illogical ?
@ googleheim
ReplyDeleteRight, all they have done is switched funds from sale of their exports from their reserve account at the Fed to their savings account at the Fed, which is what tsys effectively are. When the tsys mature, the funds will be switched back to their reserve account and they can roll them over into new tsys if they wish.