Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries

On 21/10/2010, at 5:44 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Brad DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could we get this troll--Mr. Williams--out of here please?
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> Foreclosures are currently running at 3 times their normal rates not because there has been an outbreak of cheating and dishonesty on the part of America's borrowers, but because the unemployment rate is not its normal 5% but is instead 10%, and housing prices are not at the prices that borrowers and lenders both expected them to be five years ago but are rather 30% lower.
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> We could, but we have a high tolerance for argument other than personal attacks... though with the list being so quiet lately, I'm tempted to revise my standards.  Hard to know if the quiet was due to trolling or some externality.

You can leave the troll. It's taken only a few posts for me to realise that John has zero interest in engaging with any point, just repeating his own point over and over, and then using _ad hominem_  like he's doing in response to Brad. Thought I'd see if the previous 3 years demonstration that deregulation completely failed had mellowed him or changed his mind, but it apparently hasn't.

But there's of course a solution to trolls - to not read or respond when it becomes clear they're trolling. Easy, and civilised.

Charlie.