sadlyno.com - 2/11/2009
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Housing, Job Data Signal Recovery, Not Recession 7/25/2008 By Donald Luskin Hello, investors! Is the glass half empty? Or is the glass half full? The way the stock market dropped Thursday, you’d think the glass was downright empty. In fact you’d think the empty glass had been dropped to the ...
pajamasmedia.com - 2/13/2009
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Hullabaloo —
... In case you ever wonder whether blogs are useful, I would point you to this post by Gavin over at Sadly No. He took the time to track the deluded scribblings of Donald Luskin over the course of the past year, thus proving once and for all that Luskin is living in another dimension. And he does it in the most entertaining way possible. (Of course, you could just read the very serious Washington Post, where much of this drivel was published, but seeing all the utter idiocy together is what makes it so powerful.) ...
My Old Pal Don Luskin
Eschaton —
Still wrong about everything.
Why Do I Have to Deal with People Like Donald Luskin?
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... I'm just peacefully minding my own business when Gavin M. of "Sadly, No!" seizes control of my computer and makes me watch his special on The Education Of Donald Luskin. ...
Doom's Day Has Come
Obsidian Wings —
... But seriously, isn't it about time we started heeding the advice of the people that have been right about the major economic devlopments of the past decade or so rather than, say, the Larry Kudlows and Donald Luskinsof the econo-world? Unfortunately, there's a price to pay for being prescient when you prophesy bad news, or tough times, or - gasp - the irrefutable notion that bubbles eventually pop. ...
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