The economics expert with no degree

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by dealmaker, Jul 6, 2020.

  1. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    I'll try and do better next post...
     
    #31     Jul 7, 2020
  2. Overall, Macro Musings is just great. If you are into bonds and Fed-watching, check out his interviews with Darell Duffie (about the treasury market/repo in March 2020) and with Peter Stella (recent one, about the FOMC balance sheet and his previous interview on Fed systems). There is also a lot of true macro-economic stuff there which I love listening to, lack of proper understanding of macro is my main weakness.
     
    #32     Jul 7, 2020
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  3. I am not a fan of her politics (as you know, probably), but it's hard to deny that she is educated, intelligent and well spoken.

    PS. how did we go from Tankus to AOC? is it because they are both liberal?
     
    #33     Jul 7, 2020
  4. Sig

    Sig

    Great question!
     
    #34     Jul 7, 2020
  5. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Chumpie's two of three wives, he bought their ticket to stay in USA long before AOC was even out of college.

    Nice touch labeling others from out of the country drug dealers, human traffickers, spies like we lol don't have 1000's of our very own. Cluuuueless.
     
    #35     Jul 7, 2020
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  6. piezoe

    piezoe

    Thank you so much for the suggestions. I really appreciate it!
     
    #36     Jul 7, 2020
  7. notafool

    notafool

    just because someone went to boston university
    the term well educated is a very meaningless term when used by itself. if someone learnt in a decent university it doesn't mean a thing if they cant think straight, with common sense. so yes, even if someone learnt in a good university but their comments, ideas and proposals look like they came from a baboon then i would not call them well educated. fyi i graduated from an ivy league with honors. but even i will be the first to tell you that if you can't apply it to real life then the education doesn't mean a thing. if you have a robot that memorized all the courses would you call it well educated..... ?
     
    #37     Jul 7, 2020
  8. notafool

    notafool

    i know plenty of people that had better educations that i wouldn't call well educated. that article proves nothing.
     
    #38     Jul 7, 2020
  9. Oh, is that so? I would bet dinner that you have not graduated from an Ivy League school, especially with honors. Feel free to prove me wrong, privately or publicly - we can settle at a restaurant of your choice, or mine :)
     
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    #39     Jul 7, 2020
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  10. Sig

    Sig

    You appear to have three extra letters at the beginning of your handle, you really should have those removed:finger:

    First, I'm joining @Same Lazy Element in calling bullshit on your "ivy league with honors" lie. Complete and utter bullshit, I too will buy your dinner if you can prove otherwise publically or via PM. Put up or shut up buddy.

    Second, words have well accepted meanings. That's just how the world works, you don't need an "ivy league" education to know that. I could unilaterally decide that the word "bread" doesn't mean a baked good made from flour but instead means the cut of mean from the belly of a pig, but that doesn't make it so and it would make me "afool" to go around pontificating on that. The word "educated" literally means having an education. It doesn't mean intelligent, has common sense, or can think straight, although there's an awfully high correlation between education and those things as well as the reverse as you're demonstrating. Therefore claiming that someone who graduated near the top of their class in one of the upper tier universities in the U.S. is not "well educated" as idiotic as attempting to redefine the word "bread". Doubling down on that, well only afool would do that.

    BTW, the dead giveaway that you are yourself are not "well educated" is the fact that you appear to be unable to separate your opinions on the positions of Representative Ocasio-Cortez from your personal animus against her. Well that and the fact that you're barely literate and apparently never learned about that whole capitalization thing.
     
    #40     Jul 8, 2020