Saturday, February 22, 2020

Project Syndicate — Who's Afraid of Fiscal Policy?


Stephanie Kelton, among others.

Project Syndicate
Who's Afraid of Fiscal Policy?

12 comments:

Ralph Musgrave said...

I had a look at John B Taylor’s ideas on “fiscal consolidation” mentioned in the Project Syndicate article: that’s in this article of Taylor’s:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/restoring-fiscal-order-in-united-states-by-john-taylor-5-2020-01

Taylor's article really is the most God awful load of nonsense. I’ll do an article on my blog in a day to two taking the p*ss out of it.

Plus I left a comment after the Project Syndicate article.

Matt Franko said...

Hey Ralph leave him alone he’s trying to prevent an “explosion!”

“Stanford University’s John B. Taylor, however, says the US government must undertake a gradual fiscal consolidation to prevent the federal budget deficit and debt from exploding.”

More figurative language from the art degree morons...

I’ll add “explosion” to the list... I think that puts you guys up to 7 things now....

Matt Franko said...

“Who’s afraid of fiscal policy?”

Yo, They’re called libertarians....

S400 said...

More ascribing. That puts Matt’s “you guys” ascribing to a few thousands over a period of one year.

Perhaps I shall make a list.

Matt Franko said...

1. Myth
2. secret neo-liberal conspiracy
3. evolved from apes by random chance mutation
4. Superstition
5. fantasy
6. Explosion (new!)

sorry its only 6...

S400 said...

Still a few thousands + one more.

Matt Franko said...

I'll keep adding them as they come up here...

Peter Pan said...

Codswallop, balderdash, baloney, whopper, yarn, cock and bull story, red herring, sham, ruse, smokescreen, ...

S400 said...

“I'll keep adding them as they come up here”

You should keep adding to the ascribing list. That would be good for the mental health for you and us.

Matt Franko said...

Bob slow down I cant type that fast!!!

Also, some of those might be Jabberwockies.... I dont know if Jabberwocky technically qualifies as figurative language...

I'll look into it...

Matt Franko said...

Here:

Looks like Jabberwocky might not be technically figurative language.. but even so I dont see a lot of Jabberwocky typically used by the Art degree crowd in their ersatz explanations.. they typically stick to pure figurative language.. myth, metaphors, analogies, etc..

Anything but Science and Math lol!

"The poem Jabberwocky actually does not have any similes, per se, but it does have a metaphor in it (Yes, only one).

In the 3rd line of the 4th verse, it says "the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame." I consider this a metaphor because I highly doubt the Jabberwock's eyes are on fire, so... It's a metaphor. Considering the absolute craziness of the rest of the poem, I could be wrong.

The poem is mostly nouns and verbs and such, so there actually isn't very much figurative language if you just read it directly."

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_similes_in_Jabberwocky

S400 said...

Matt’s hacking in linguistics again. Perhaps there’s deep envy toward those in that area too.