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...bolster [one’s] image.” Whether or not this is medically sound or accurate (it’s not), people love the psychopathology angle: what if it turned out the Tuzla incident was actually a psychotic episode, and that Sen. Clinton is in fact schizophrenic economist John Nash? Is that played out?Meanwhile, ABC News has been vehemently derided for its recent debate, which was labeled ‘irrelevant’ by many and whose host, Charlie Gibson, was pilloried as a gossipmonger. One exemplary moment featured Nash McCabe, a Pennsylvania everywoman in a bizarre...
...Stein vs. Darwin Here we go again: Ben Stein, a really bad scientist and mediocre economist, feels intelligent-design proponents have been slighted [April 21]. I will state the point again: scientists are uncomfortable with I.D. because it is a warm, fuzzy belief unprovable by any scientific method. Maybe Stein would like to propose a scientific methodology to prove I.D. It would have to be a doozy. Roy Senn, New Hartford, New York...
...allow limited sales of previously non-tradable equities held by big investors in listed firms. But it was the transaction-tax cut that got the market climbing again. "The tax drop is an important signal of the government's resolve to salvage the market," says Dong Tao, chief regional economist at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. "The financial benefit investors are getting from the new policy is trivial, but the reassurance from the government...
...Economists who study currency movements aren't so sure. They figure the usual cyclical ups and downs are a big factor in the dollar's fall. How much of a factor? Who knows? "I try not to talk to reporters too much these days," says Menzie Chinn, a University of Wisconsin economist who is one of the nation's leading academic currency watchers. "Because, frankly, I'm confused...
Here we go again: Ben Stein, a really bad scientist and mediocre economist, feels intelligent-design proponents have been slighted [April 21]. I will state the point again: scientists are uncomfortable with I.D. because it is a warm, fuzzy belief unprovable by any scientific method. Maybe Stein would like to propose a scientific methodology to prove I.D. It would have to be a doozy. Roy Senn, NEW HARTFORD...