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Comment by gjsman-1000

6 days ago

Everyone's a charlatan until their claims come true. For that matter, your rebuttal comes with its own statements of faith, "I just don’t buy it."

Someone who predicts 15 of the last 2 recessions is a charlatan even when their claims come true.

  • But who was the charlatan? The person predicting the recession, or the government who stopped the predicted recession by adding another $5T to the debt pile, to almost inevitably cause a recession later, at a more politically convenient time for those in power today? The recession happened, as predicted, the government absorbed it for another day.

    • I'm going with the pathologically incurious guy who is wrong in essentially every detail.

Everyone is free to make their own judgment about who is offering a genuine analysis that clarifies reality rather than obscuring it.