{"id":1321,"date":"2009-02-09T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T06:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2020-07-31T03:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:14:56","slug":"another-liar-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Another Liar-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jrrMd3vVQOVz3VkZpCTUA_B45z3gD968E8680\">Calvin Woodward, at the <abbr title=\"Associated Press\">AP<\/abbr>, calls this an <em>overstatement<\/em><\/a>:<\/p> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Most economists, almost unanimously, recognize that even if philosophically you're wary of government intervening in the economy, when you have the kind of problem you have right now &#8230; government is an important element of introducing some additional demand into the economy.<\/blockquote> <p>but it goes <em>well<\/em> beyond mere <em>overstatement<\/em>.  It's an gross <em>lie<\/em>.<\/p> <p>It's bad enough when people use <em>consensus<\/em> to argue for a proposition that ought instead to be tested by <em>logic<\/em> applied to <em>brute fact<\/em>.  But this business of using <em>counterfeit<\/em> consensus is just actively <em>vile<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calvin Woodward, at the AP, calls this an overstatement: Most economists, almost unanimously, recognize that even if philosophically you're wary of government intervening in the economy, when you have the kind of problem you have right now &#8230; government is an important element of introducing some additional demand into the economy. but it goes well [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,9,104,4],"tags":[135,936,516,148,45,144,150,514,515],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-consensus","tag-economic-depression","tag-markets","tag-obama","tag-recession","tag-socialism","tag-stimulus-bill","tag-technocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}