U.S. recovery becoming self-sustaining
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A (hopefully) non-partisan question:
Is anyone aware of any evidence that any action by any branch of government has ever had any effect on the economy whatsoever? Has anyone ever actually done a correlation analysis with a proper null hypothesis ("no effect"), etc?
Not a rhetorical question. I really want to know.
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Oh, and an answer along the lines of "Well, in 19XX, after Congress passed the Wah-Wah Economic bill, the Whatever Index went up by XX%." doesn't cut it. You have no way of knowing whether that would have happened anyway. I think it'd take some kind of statistical analysis over the long term to really get an answer...
Is anyone aware of any evidence that any action by any branch of government has ever had any effect on the economy whatsoever? Has anyone ever actually done a correlation analysis with a proper null hypothesis ("no effect"), etc?
Not a rhetorical question. I really want to know.
Edited to add:
Oh, and an answer along the lines of "Well, in 19XX, after Congress passed the Wah-Wah Economic bill, the Whatever Index went up by XX%." doesn't cut it. You have no way of knowing whether that would have happened anyway. I think it'd take some kind of statistical analysis over the long term to really get an answer...
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If Obama found the cure for cancer tomorrow, Republicans would say cancer would have cured itself eventually and all he did was waste tax-payer money.
Also, he hates America.
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