roachboy

i could just as easily correlate the number of letters in your posts with the fluctuations of the price of oil, present it in a little graphic and make the same claims about it. that you can plot two lines and juxtapose them, and claim they both are "real world data" means nothing, ace. you should know this. i'm surprised that you're even trying to make these claims float.

as for what's not there---read host's or dc's posts above.
look at the blog entry linked above--all operating at a level of reduced information, but enough to show that the lines hauser draws are more interesting for the process of isolating them than they are for what they say, particularly in relation to each other, and even more as the basis for the claims that are reproduced in the wsj edito by some guy.

(it's hard to tell much about him, btw, as his company's website requires you to subscribe to find out much of anything about it. they are freer with their press releases, but they're press releases.)


on your more curious claims:

supply side exists as a body of pseudo-theory, that is real-world information.
the performance of american neoliberal regimes influenced by supplyside has been abysmal. there's already information in the thread--nice objective seeming graphics, if you like, that makes that case. ignoring it and repeating that "supply side is real world data" is meaningless.

everything is real-world data.
your posts are. my posts are. everything anyone writes is. all information in the world. not necessarily information about the world, but in it.

there's a difference.

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