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1StrongBlackMan

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9. To me ...

Reply to freshwest (Reply #8)

Thu Jan 23, 2014, 04:30 PM

Jan 2014

it's not so much a matter of whether the commentator is biased or unbiased, or paid to tell the truth, or not ... the issue for me is whether that commentator is competent to even offer an opinion on the topic. In most of these cases, we have a journalist (with maybe an intro-level under-graduate economics education) trying to "debate"/counter the opinion of a Noble laurate.

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The WSJ's economic opinions are never neutral. And its writers are not paid to tell the truth. freshwest Jan 2014 #8

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