Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: General thoughts

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Devine, James" wrote:
>
>
> My point was simply that a lack of discussion of some issue does not
> necessarily mean that if you put 9 economists and quasi-economists in a
> room, you get 10 opinions.
>

I think Jim is correct here, and my earlier statement to the contrary
was too flippant. He is also right that debates about whether there is
or is not going to be (or is) a recession (or a recovery) are pretty
silly -- unless it is understood that they are for amusement purposes
only.

Carrol