Thursday, June 13, 2019

Myth Watch


Picked up two more mythology employment incidents here yesterday:

Here from the Carillo article down-thread:

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' 
For over 40 years, Republicans have controlled the conventional wisdom around budgets, successfully using the “taxpayer money” myth...

Here from Brian R's article down-thread:

...essentially the same thing as Quantitative Easing (QE), which has had no measurable effect on any macro variables in places like Japan. (There is certainly a feverish mythology about QE in some corners of the markets,...

This method of the employment of more of the figurative continues apace to continuing no real effect...