Deinonychus antirrhopus

Can't you post something interesting so I can duke it out with you and your boyz? All your posts require an investment in the econoboyz blogosphere that is much higher than I want to pay.

Sorry for threadjacking but you wrote:

Deb,

Please try to refrain from dragging discussions in closed threads over to new comment sections.

--Steve

Deb: Your mother wears army boots, neener neener.

I just thought I'd take a minute to elevate the level of discourse a bit.

Steve, I'm sorry. You are nowhere near Timmy in overestimating your intelligence. This guy has nothing substantive to say ever. And the bank teller thinks people find his repetitive, inane tinkling on my ankle funny. I guess maybe it's the only time he gets to interact with a woman?

Deb,

Are you trying to tell us that you're bummed Steve didn't consult for Enron?

Hey Deb, I get to interact a lot with women; like everytime I check out at the supermarket there they are, ringing up my purchase.

Grocery shopping is on-topic for an economic post, isn't it?

dear jonron and moron,

sorry, no clue what you're talking about.

and no one has answered the simple question yet:

what is steve verdon's day job? Has anyone ever paid this guy a PENNY for his thoughts on economics?

You market-worshippers DO agree that the question of whether someone has ever been paid for blathering on a topic is a cue ("signal") to whether the person's blathering is worth a dime, don't you?

Not as reliable a clue as that of repeated references to one's intellectual opponents' sex lives. Such as your repeated references, deb.

The current "market" for your credibility is zero.

Deb says
sorry, no clue what you're talking about
You guys gotta admit, truer words have never been spoken. I'm wondering, though, if Deb realizes just how how extensively true that statement is.

I guess steve is embarrassed to come out about what he does for a day job. why am i not surprised?

Are you really so daft as you can't find his OTB profile by clicking around from the link in this very post?

No Timmy - it's not cost-effective to spend any more time trying to figure out what stevie does - google him and you will see that he as no web presence except for the lightweight boyz in the economics blogosphere.

Do you REALLY have a degree in economics - you should have been able to figure this one out, Timmy!

Well Deb if you must know my day job is statistical analysis and programing. I also do economics related stuff, but mostly it is the stats stuff.

Steve: Speaking of that Outside The Beltway profile, you might want to get it cleaned up a bit, it looks like half of once sentence is missing.

Thanks Steve. As I suspected, no one has ever paid you a penny for your expertise in economics.

I wonder if deb had the same sneering attitude when a particular professor of linguistics took it upon himself to comment upon foreign policy?

Deb's nearly always got the same sneering attitude. She only drops it when she's whining about how come everyone else is being so adversarial.

No deb you thought wrong. The economics related stuff is economics. Not broad sweeping stuff like general equilibrium, but still related to a particular field of economics.

Steve,

As a non-economist (but one who has taken a few classes, and has a bit of interaction with economists), let me say:

1. Your blog is useful in explaining economic concepts and, more to the point, to presenting the economic POV on various public policy issues.

2. Your credibility is far higher than this deb person's on any topic at any given moment. Not to mention being far more civil.

3. I'd venture that it's this inane, and explicit, looking for a fight that leaves me wondering about the cost-benefit of having her commenting here in the first place.

I think his Sainthood RE: Deb The Nutty Psychology Prof is probably what keeps Steve coming out relatively good on these Evil Exams.

I've had some time to think about it, and Deb, if it makes you feel better to think that I don't get paid for my knowledge of economics then fine. I don't get paid for my knowledge of economics. Do you feel better now?

Deb wrote:

"You market-worshippers DO agree that the question of whether someone has ever been paid for blathering on a topic is a cue ("signal") to whether the person's blathering is worth a dime, don't you?"

Interesting - esp in the light of my Krugman/Enron comment which I find it hard to believe you cannot grok.

And while their opinion might be worth a dime - or a nickel depending on the NYT's current payscale for columnists - it doesn't even remotely mean they are "correct" - factually, technically or theoretically.

Also - consider the "who" of who is paying the bling - is it a firm that it is involved in creating wealth - or is it a University like Princeton?

That should answer your question rather handily.

Oh - and I'm feeling left out. Why haven't you asked about my qualifications to ask impertinent questions about Krugman and his abuse of stats?

Please do be checking you pie at the door.

Ooh Ooh, I'm getting paid for my knowledge of economics at this very moment!

Timmy da bank teller: How would you like that? Twenties okay? Or would you prefer tens?