Thursday, March 20, 2008

Fun with Speculated “Facts”: Consider the Audience

At one point (April 2006) he said making Iraq dictator free was one trillion dollars, a clean, round number that even an old hippy can remember. Then a January 2006 of his statement was used to raised the alarmism to two trillion dollars

Now Stiglitz says it’s three trillion dollars.



I think I found out where he gets his routine, and why corrupting the figures is so useful. Of course, not to be out-done, Pravda raised it to six.

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