Easy for her to say...
Posted on 07/24/2013 10:52:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
At least has good company with Paul Ehrlich.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilification
Quote:
Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language, being one letter longer than the commonly-cited antidisestablishmentarianism. In the debate on the remuneration of EU staff, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg used the word floccinaucinhiliphication on 21st February 2012 making it the longest word ever used in the British House of Commons.
So Paul Krugman is dead? Excuse me but I could not interpret the article as it was partially written in some foreign language.
I read two or three (what I’ll call paragraphs) then gave up.
One thing I am forced to admit; the danger of deflation was greater than most people, myself included, thought. The one and only good thing this Keynesian nightmare we’ve entered is good for is killing deflation. That, and the train wreck that is the EU has kept our interest rates low. But everything does come to an end, now doesn’t it? And the crew in charge do not have a clue as to how to end it.
And on top of all that, I'm not even sure Paul Krugman is really dead.
Posting fail. Content fail.
Stupid article.
I prefer the analogy of Maps introduced to me in S.I. Hayakawa's "Language in Thought & Action". Having spent a lot of time with maps, this gives me a more complete understanding of the concept. I believe that Alford Korzybski was the originator of the concept.
Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked that "the map is not the territory", encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. Korzybski held that many people do confuse maps with territories, that is, confuse models of reality with reality itself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher, described it thus, "The description is not the described", to which he has further exemplified: "it is like a man who is hungry. Any amount of description of the right kind of food will never satisfy him. He is hungry, he wants food."
The reason liberals appear to be wandering around lost is because they have such lousy maps! Political correctness drives them to spend all their time in deep discussions of Where Should the Compass Rose be Placed and How Many Colors Needed to Differentiate Political Boundaries.
It has been years or even generations since anyone from their inbred culture has gone out to look at the territory, i.e. "the REAL world" to verify that their map has any resemblance thereto.
IMHO, quantitative easing may well be the end of the US as we know it.
Helicopter Ben gave just the slightest hint that the Fed may back off a little bit between now and the end of the year. Mortgage rates promptly surged. Given that, imagine the disaster if Ben and the gang completely quit this artificial prop to the economy.
Sounds like a fancy way to lie about inflation.
“prices are not going up” (unless you consider food and fuel).
Easy for her to say...
He will go down in history as the Great Floccinaucinhiliphicator. (The Great Insignificant Trifling Nothing
Maybe without the Great.
"Latin flocci, from floccus, a wisp or piece of wool + nauci, from naucum, a trifle + nihili, from the Latin pronoun, nihil (“nothing”) + pili, from pilus, a hair, something insignificant (all therefore having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + -fication."
He got his "prize" for theorizing that "big government policies of control" work from a bunch of socialistic big government types that like to control every thing.
I don't think I've read any of his "scholarly" work, just some of the pap he spews forth insisting that people stop believing both their lying eyes and common sense, and do as he says to find that liberal nirvana. And ostracize anybody that disagrees with him.
How the author expects Krugman to start acting rationally by admitting his Keynesian-style theories aren't "working", and can only fail more quickly and miserably as government's piece of the economy increases is well beyond my ken.
Colonel Nicholson was prescient in his mea culpa compared to Paul Krugman.
That was really unreadable, and since it concerned Paul Krugman, I didn’t even try.
If only I could pronounce it.
Finally, Krugman’s conduct bears an uncomfortable resemblance to that of Sen. Joe McCarthy’s “guilt by association.
Isn't it ironic that an article calling out Krugman for his behavior towards his adversaries, then takes that same type of prior behavior towards McCarthy and accepts it uncritically. Senator Joe McCarthy was correct in most of his accusation as demonstrated by the declassified Venona project and declassified KGB files. It's even more obvious now with the benefit of hindsight that he was only scratching the surface.
“I read two or three (what I’ll call paragraphs) then gave up.”
Same here.
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