I thought he did a good job with it all. Though he of course fudged a bit as to where this crisis started.
Republicans...
Yeah, you're fucked.
I thought he did a good job with it all. Though he of course fudged a bit as to where this crisis started.
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
he is such a bummer. never anything good to say about us or the country. he's depressing.
Well I am one of the few liberals here who will agree with you that it began under Clinton and his gang of triangulators. However, that aside, it was great to see Obama nip the budding conventional wisdom of "it was the consumer's fault!" that Oprah was bandwagoning on the other day, and that was really gathering some steam within our punditry class, or, as I like to call them, the retards.
He did a damned great job, and the public supported him and this bill, and not the Republicans, already.
I wouldn't want to be them tomorrow!
Except that was the part he fudged. Technically this whole thing began under pappa Bush... not Clinton.... and it most certainly was due in large part to consumers spending more than they could afford, buying more home than they could afford. That spending bubble burst once the equity bubble burst and the subsequent housing bubble burst.
As I have stated in the past, no question the idiots in DC and on Wall Street certainly played large roles in this debacle as well.... but he was wrong to dismiss the role consumers played.
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
what a fear monger....
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