Biggest lie ever?

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mustafur
That is where I got it from, unless your talking about this: http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/25/6843509/income-distribution-recoveries-pavlina-tcherneva Which was quoted in the source.
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That's also a piece of journalism, not a piece of economic research.

To understand what the chart actually shows you need to read the original piece in which it was published, not what someone else is telling you what they think it shows. Given that this is in a thread called "biggest lie ever", willingness to accept agendised interpretations of data in ignorance of the source is... well ironic I guess.
 
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mustafur
It doesn't trickle down is what Is what Im saying, Give it another name but don't call it the very thing it's proven not to do.
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"Trickle Down Economics" does not mean that when a small group of people get rich that everyone benefits. There are times and places in the world to refute that - communist Russia being a great example. The US is also not practicing trickle down economics, so citing US numbers to refute the concept seems quite silly. Furthermore, comparing the gains from one group of the US population to another group of the US population would not be a good measure, that would show a distribution (which is a somewhat silly thing to show) rather than actual gains. For example, if one year the bottom 90% gets 80% of the gains and the top 10% gets 20%, and the next year the top 10% gets 80% of the gains and the bottom 90% gets 20%, it's not clear from either of those two statistics in which year the bottom 90% benefited more.

So we have the following:
- A misunderstanding of what "trickle down economics" is.
- An evaluation of a country that doesn't practice it.
- And a measurement that couldn't possibly refute it

Almost as unrelated as possible.
 
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Famine
Which is a political 'news' website :lol:

What you're after is an economic research paper. You won't find it on news websites, you'll find it in economic research journals.
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there is a Transcript linked to that source from the creator of said poll, what more would you need then that.
 
I retract my statement on trickle down economics, as usual things are never what they seem when something is implemented in real vs what it's actually supposed to be.

Reaganomics is probably the best term for this ''lie'.
 
Jawehawk
The cake!


Or did someone already do that one? :lol:
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Literally the second post in this thread :lol:.

Back on topic, There are quite a few big lies as far as vehicles are concerned.

- AWD/4X4 = Automatic Winter Domination
- Electric cars are better for the enviroment in every way, shape, or form
- "It's only surface rust and minor body work"
- Rotary engines are always unreliable
- Turbocharged engines are always better than Supercharged/Natutally Aspirated engines
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...y-Neil-Armstrong-and-Buzz-Aldrin-is-fake.html

'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake
A moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 has turned out to be a fake.


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A piece of moon rock was given during a goodwill tour by the three apollo 11 astronauts. Photo: Getty Images


12:12AM BST 29 Aug 2009


Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the "lunar rock", valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood.

Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation, said the museum would continue to keep the stone as a curiosity.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."

The rock was given to Willem Drees, a former Dutch leader, during a global tour by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin following their moon mission 50 years ago.
 
So the question may now be, who switched out the authentic moon rock for the fake some time during that 50-year-plus span?
 
Or there used to be Tree's on the moon and they didn't check every moon rock to see it if was all rock. :lol:
 
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we have been taken."
- Carl Sagan, shortly before his death

"It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled."
- Mark Twain
 

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