Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBenjamin Friedman: belief
27 Jan 2021 Conversations with Tyler Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief
“I would love to have done that, but I wasn’t good enough. I understand he was mighty good, so I would say if anything, he was underrated.”
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…Victor Niederhoffer as a squash player — underrated or overrated? [laughs] You probably are referring to the fact that for many years, I was a squash player. I wasn’t good enough to play with Vic Niederhoffer. I would love to have done that, but I wasn’t good enough. I understand he was mighty good, so I would say if anything, he was underrated. Fiscal sustainability. Paul Krugman and others argue that because interest payments, as a share of US GDP, are stable or sometimes even declining, that our current path is fiscally sustainable. Do you agree?…
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