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Why I don’t trust ‘award-winning’ experts
American Thinker ^ | 22 Jan, 2022 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 01/22/2022 4:45:28 AM PST by MtnClimber

President Biden repeatedly claims that Build Back Better will reduce inflation and says seventeen Nobel Prize-winning economists agree with him. Although Biden lies a lot, it is certainly possible that he could find leftist economists who love big government and socialism, no matter how it fails as an economic system. Socialism essentially makes the government more powerful and makes more people dependent on the government. It gives little opportunity for the poor and middle class to move up.

Here are some simple lessons on economic concepts and inflation:

In the 1960’s, the government started throwing massive amounts of money at colleges, in the forms of grants and loans, to supposedly make them more affordable. The colleges took the opportunity to increase their tuition prices much faster than inflation. There was never any attempt to control costs. As costs went up, the government just through more money ate them, with no effort to see if the degree justified the costs, or if the parents and students could afford to pay the loans back. In other words, there was no underwriting.

What is the Democrats’ current solution for these massive loans? Have taxpayers pay them. The proper solution would have the schools guarantee the loans since they are the beneficiaries.

The Obama/Biden Administration sought to destroy for-profit colleges because “for-profit colleges lure students with misleading promises, then saddle them with debts they can’t pay back despite their newly granted degrees.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 01/22/2022 4:45:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
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These experts are awarded by leftist institutes so awards only seem to go to leftists regardless of accomplishments by conservatives.


2 posted on 01/22/2022 4:45:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 01/22/2022 4:50:57 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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*** As costs went up, the government just through more money ate them,***

Are there no proofreaders or editors anymore or anywhere?


4 posted on 01/22/2022 4:57:12 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: MtnClimber

“Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.”

Simone Weil


5 posted on 01/22/2022 4:58:59 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: MtnClimber
Turns out the so called "experts" are working at a level equal to the integrity of a lefttard corrupted wikipedia entry or a farcebook "fact-checker".

The definition of "expert" under the fraud election-stealing pedojoe sharty-pants bidet disaster is evolving to mean "Opinions to be discarded post-haste".

"Expert says..."


6 posted on 01/22/2022 4:59:36 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: MtnClimber

Most “professionals” study others research.
If the research is accurate than there isn’t a problem.
But the problem is more research than is realized is inaccurate.
Particularly certain elements within a study.
Occasionally they find nearly all of the research is about worthless.
Like global warming..I mean climate change..I forget what they call it currently.
As a simple example look how many decades certain foods were considered bad for you but later turned out not to be bad for you. Some of them turned out to actually be good for you.


7 posted on 01/22/2022 5:02:50 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: FamiliarFace
Apparently not. But we now have a plethora of semi-literate pontificators.

I often find better writing on this site.

8 posted on 01/22/2022 5:03:28 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Who is Ray Epps?)
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To: MtnClimber
Authority bias is the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure (unrelated to its content) and be more influenced by that opinion. An individual is more influenced by the opinion of this authority figure, believing their views to be more credible, and hence place greater emphasis on the authority figure’s viewpoint. This concept is considered one of the so-called social cognitive biases or collective cognitive biases.


9 posted on 01/22/2022 5:05:26 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: MtnClimber

They all won “major awards” as in Christmas Story.


10 posted on 01/22/2022 5:14:50 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: FamiliarFace

Amazing. So many grammatical errors, it’s hard to read or believe in what’s being presented. Stuff like this would get most people thrown out of the job. But stupid and lazy is the New World Order. Idiocracy is here and running at full throttle.


11 posted on 01/22/2022 5:15:42 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: MtnClimber
Build Back Better will reduce inflation and says seventeen Nobel Prize-winning economists agree with him.

Ok, then they should be Held Criminally and Financially liable for thier actions if it fails, they are NOT elected Officials and do NOT enjoy any type of Immunity for thier actions.
12 posted on 01/22/2022 5:26:04 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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There are so many articles with simple grammatical errors that I’m very much wondering how these even get published. It really is incredible. If the simple-to-fix things are so easily overlooked, I can only imagine the quality that goes into the research.


13 posted on 01/22/2022 5:31:23 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: MtnClimber

Churchill said it best.


14 posted on 01/22/2022 5:34:59 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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expert = a “has been” under pressure.


15 posted on 01/22/2022 5:50:04 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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It is hard to trust anyone. When I got home form Viet Nam the news media was reporting something much different than the war I had just been in. So much for the media. John Hanoi Kerry was calling Viet Nam Veterans baby killers and war criminals while he supports abortion. He got my neighbors calling me a baby killer. So much for politicians and general population.

Trust but verify? NO WAY@!!

16 posted on 01/22/2022 6:24:53 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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And yet, John Kerry is alibe and still an anti American trouble maker


17 posted on 01/22/2022 6:27:41 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
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To: FamiliarFace

Author must’ve used spell check

It’s THREW


18 posted on 01/22/2022 6:37:14 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster; MtnClimber; FamiliarFace; Aevery_Freeman; paulcissa
Hellner’s article contains the following:
“As costs went up, the government just threw more money at them,....”
19 posted on 01/22/2022 7:40:19 AM PST by PsyCon
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To: MtnClimber
These experts are awarded by leftist institutes so awards only seem to go to leftists regardless of accomplishments by conservatives.

Yep, but forgot to put "experts" in quotation marks. Also, see Tagline.

20 posted on 01/22/2022 7:45:27 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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