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Is Economics a Science?

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Tony Lima

The fault, dear reader, is not the models. It’s their abuse by people who knew the results they wanted and used the models to justify those results. Continue Reading →

Posted in The 2009 banking crisis | Tagged collateralized debt obligations, david brooks, econometric model, economists, financial crisis, financial market meltdown, financial models, subprime market, subprime mortgages

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