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		| Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop Sure, I'll take your ipse dixit over his any day.  What does he know?  He's just a professor of economics at UC Berkeley and a former Treasury Department official. I'm sure he doesn't know the difference between the household survey and the payroll survey.
 
 Have the sense to know when you're behind . . . .
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 Obviously, I was being overly polite, rather than say that he seems willing to talk right past that difference in defense of his desires.  Saying "he doesn't understand" just seems less aggressive than saying "he's lying by omission."