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April 13, 2009 8:38 PM   Subscribe

The final paragraph of this piece in the NYT may perhaps be the most important thing you read this year, if you wish to really be an 'informed' citizen. One can only wish that all those in our governments who direct fiscal policies have fully internalized these relationships, and their ramifications.
posted by woodblock100 (5 comments total)

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That last paragraph:
Correction: April 6, 2009
The Basics column on Tuesday about using quantitative reasoning to find an approximate answer to complex problems, misstated the number of utilities in a game of Monopoly. It is two, not four.
MY GOD. LIFE. CHANGING.
posted by dw at 8:40 PM on April 13, 2009 [2 favorites]


The Neanderthals played Powerball?
posted by ornate insect at 8:41 PM on April 13, 2009


Time value of money.
posted by Pants! at 8:45 PM on April 13, 2009


Given the choice between government representatives internalizing cutesy calculations and making good policy, I'm going to choose the latter. Which is why I hope to fucking God they aren't reading the NYT, because neither am I.
posted by allen.spaulding at 8:46 PM on April 13, 2009


My god you are right. Indeed I shall read nothing at all for the rest of the year in case something else comes along that outshines this paragraph.
posted by mattoxic at 8:51 PM on April 13, 2009


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