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but the problem happens when people start talking about France's or Europe's "obvious economic underperformance" or America's "brilliant" economy, or France's massive unemployment, etc...

These are "facts" part of the prevailing narrative, and the kind that we have deconstructed and (i) ask others to justify when they brign them up and (ii) tend to dismiss when brought up by others because we've deconstructed them many times here and do not care to do it yet again.

Thus my hope to have access to a better library of links to our arguments, that could be brought up each time these issues pop up.

It is a problem, because the number of issues on which the conventional wisdom is deeply flawed is huge.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 11:10:18 AM EST
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Exactly.  Unfortunately, the opposite side also uses that language to dare and divide, so we cannot let terminology, field, or format divide us.  

We know we cannot swallow the press as fact and we try to find the reality and spread it, summarized and humanized, to reach more people.  The in-house source to link to is great to shorten answers because it does feel eternal, out here.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 12:33:36 PM EST
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