[Mase]

PCR has come up for air. The meds must be helping.

[1rudeboy]

Ikenson slaps Roberts down pretty hard, here:

In an opinion piece published this week, Paul Craig Roberts takes exception to a conclusion in my recent Cato paper about the state of U.S. manufacturing. I usually welcome disagreement as an opportunity to elaborate or persuade. But it’s quite evident that Roberts is not interested in elaboration and is beyond persuasion. The purpose of his dissent was to construct a straw man against which he could present his skeptical, and empirically refutable, views about trade.
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I usually don’t mind disagreement with my point of view. It happens frequently. But I find it offensive when someone disparages and dismisses my work without a coherent basis for doing so.
Paul Craig Roberts Misses the Mark.