Failin' with Palin on QE

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Covertibility, Nov 8, 2010.

  1. Can tea party people read?

    Palin Lashes Out At WSJ Reporter, Misquotes Story

    Even more unusual were the specifics of Palin's critique: As WSJ's Sudeep Reddy pointed out Monday, she doesn't get all of her facts right. In response to Palin's assertion that "everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so," Reddy wrote Monday that "Grocery prices haven't risen all that significantly, in fact." He notes that prices have actually increased only 0.6 percent over the past year. It's the lowest rate on record -- so low that it inspired a high-profile Twitter fight late last month.

    But Palin would have none of it. She wrote in her Facebook note, "That's odd, because just last Thursday, November 4, I read an article in Mr. Reddy's own Wall Street Journal titled 'Food Sellers Grit Teeth, Raise Prices: Packagers and Supermarkets Pressured to Pass Along Rising Costs, Even as Consumers Pinch Pennies.' She continued:

    "Now I realize I'm just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I'm surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn't."


    Reddy has responded to Palin on Twitter, pointing out that she has actually misread the WSJ article she refers to. As Reddy notes, the article's first sentence discusses "the tamest year of food pricing in nearly two decades."

    The source of confusion comes in the next paragraph. The article says the cost of goods has risen, a burden that food sellers must decide whether to pass on to customers via prices. The rise in prices hasn't actually happened yet. Palin omits this key fact.

    Reddy has also re-tweeted a tweet from Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum, who defends Reddy and blasts Palin for misquoting the WSJ story about prices. Here's Chittum:

    "Palin has a journalism degree, so I'm guessing she knows what an ethical no-no it is to misquote somebody like that. It ought to be awfully hard for her to get on her pedestal and condemn the media when she can't even quote somebody honestly. How about to make it up to Reddy, Palin lets a real reporter like him fly out to Wasilla to interview her for once instead of going to her house folks at Fox News?"

    UPDATE:
    Sudeep Reddy has responded in the WSJ to Palin's Facebook note. He cites Labor Department data to reiterate that Palin's argument about food prices is not grounded in fact, and he continues:

    Weak demand, high unemployment and thrifty shoppers have led retailers to keep many prices from rising despite the rising cost of some commodities, including coffee and sugar. ... Critics of the Fed's quantitative easing policy are focused primarily on concerns about potential future inflation.

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    Bigger picture, we've seen this before, remember when oil hit the $140 and there were shortages of rice at Costco??

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    I don't think you can get sustainable core inflation from rising commodity and food prices.

    I have no idea why in the world anyone would listen to that idiot Palin.
     
    #21     Nov 9, 2010
  2. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Can you, she's NOT likely to get the nomination in 2012. Therefore she's more or less irrelevant and is mostly just a figure head.

    I have no idea why the left wing nuts are so obsessed with her.
     
    #22     Nov 9, 2010
  3. If you knew anything about economics, you'd know that hours worked increases before more employees are hired. This is why unemployment is characterized as a lagging indicator.
    I can't believe I have to explain this to someone who posts on a site called Elite Trader.
    I mean, honestly, are any of you serious, or do you do this as a hobby?
     
    #23     Nov 9, 2010
  4. I need to revise:

    If you knew anything at all about real life....

    I wouldn't be explaining this.

    Get up off your lazy ass and talk to someone. You might learn something.
     
    #24     Nov 9, 2010