For those of you who may be ...

For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.
 Barry Ritholtz

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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
 Barry Ritholtz
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
 Barry Ritholtz