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  • Ambrose EP: when even the "establishment" econmists get it but the native ecomists don't

    One must wonder how the domestic economists are being incentivized
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...have-nots.html

    Raghuram Rajan, the IMF’s former chief economist, argues that the subprime debt build-up was an attempt – “whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance” – to disguise stagnating incomes and to buy off the poor.

    Question for you Britons: is this legal english?
    ... QE2, is to drive up Wall Street, perhaps because it has so signally failed to achieve its other purpose of driving down borrowing costs.

    Or did he mean to write "singularly"?

    signally might make sense, used thus:
    "... perhaps because it has failed to achieve its other purpose of signally driving down borrowing costs."

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    Re: Ambrose EP: when even the "establishment" outside econmists get it but the domestics don't

    Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
    One must wonder how the domestic economists are being incentivized
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...have-nots.html

    Raghuram Rajan, the IMF’s former chief economist, argues that the subprime debt build-up was an attempt – “whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance” – to disguise stagnating incomes and to buy off the poor.

    Question for you Britons: is this legal english?
    ... QE2, is to drive up Wall Street, perhaps because it has so signally failed to achieve its other purpose of driving down borrowing costs.

    Or did he mean to write "singularly"?

    signally might make sense, used thus:
    "... perhaps because it has failed to achieve its other purpose of signally driving down borrowing costs."

    http://onelook.com/?w=signally&ls=a

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      Re: Ambrose EP: when even the "establishment" outside econmists get it but the domestics don't

      Originally posted by Chomsky View Post
      I was wondering if that use is a British colloquialism

      I looked up the definition several places and did not see how it matches his usage.

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      • #4
        Re: Ambrose EP: when even the "establishment" outside econmists get it but the domestics don't

        Archaic but correct.
        It's Economics vs Thermodynamics. Thermodynamics wins.

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