The Economic Equivalent of Birther-ism

americaneconomicalert.org by Alan Tonelson | Aug. 29, 2012 (News Analysis)

When political figures and commentators persistently traffic in demonstrable falsehoods, like birther-ism, the Big Media rightly consign them to the lunatic fringe. When their counterparts from the economics world spread equally demonstrable – and tendentious – falsehoods regarding trade and globalization, the Big Media award them prominent bylines.

The latest example came in a review in last Sunday’s Washington Post that covered two new ... Full Story »

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