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		belter on March 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury,... Those people normally claim they don't know how the economy works. "Greenspan - I was wrong about the economy. Sort of" - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/24/economics-c...

mrangle on March 13, 2023 [–]

Error is the easiest and most common government excuse for inexcusable malice. Which means that people shouldn't allow for that excuse in the context of grand scale failures like 2008, 2003, etc.

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