Comments for The Washington Post's Entry in the "How Many Big Things Can You Get Wrong in a Short Article?" Contest at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Sat, 25 May 2013 01:04:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-posts-entry-in-the-qhow-many-big-things-can-you-get-wrong-in-a-short-articleq-contest#comment-3838 . Izzatso thinks that buyers and sellers “benefit from trade due to conflicting expectations of prices moving in opposite directions” Not true: if both buyers and sellers expect prices to remain totally stable or more or less stable, both sides normally still “benefit from trade”. - Ralph Musgrave Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:03:14 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-posts-entry-in-the-qhow-many-big-things-can-you-get-wrong-in-a-short-articleq-contest#comment-3832 Why be shocked? The last guy to ask for a housing bubble while Dean Baker and Robert Shiller were saying we were already in a bubble won the Nobel prize in economics. Now that guy is inciting the yellow peril from the 30s with incessant China bashing. - pete Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:27:32 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-washington-posts-entry-in-the-qhow-many-big-things-can-you-get-wrong-in-a-short-articleq-contest#comment-3829 [quote]So the administration thinks that it is very important to both speed up and slow down the foreclosure process? That may make sense to the Washington Post, but probably not to anyone else.[/quote] Oh yeah Mr Commy Mommy? So free market forces can't move in opposing directions at the same time, is that it? Well how 'bout this bit of news. Why are there buyers and sellers in the first place? Because [i]both benefit from trade[/i] due to conflicting expectations of prices moving in opposite directions don't they? Finally the White House exhibits an inkling of understanding on how free markets actually work to clear out the housing surplus by mimicking it perfectly and some commie like you comes along and wants to use government interference and socialism to prolong the agony. Stupid liberals. - izzatzo Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:52:08 +0100