One of those mocking, derisive but ultimately silly attacks made by both Giuliani and Palin yesterday had to do with mocking Obama’s time as a community organizers. I’ve read many different posts today defending the work community organizers do but Obama, as you might expect, puts the right perspective on the issue. Steve Benen has more background.
(he slightly misspeaks at the start — it was 20 years ago, not 3).
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I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but at what point do you start wondering about how these numbers get put out there. I find it hard to believe that career employees of these agencies would silently accept any overt massaging, but at the same time… these measures don’t match up with what’s going out there…
November 1st, 2007 at 8:17 am
Net net, the selection of inflation indices means that buying inflation-adjusted bonds is no longer an acceptable investment option. There’s too much risk that the inflation-adjustment will simply be ratcheted downwards when expedient.