Megan McArdle on Elizabeth Warren’s Misleading Use of Figures in The Two-Income Trap

by Little Miss Attila on July 24, 2010

“I don’t know which is worse: the notion that Elizabeth Warren understood what she was doing, or the notion that she didn’t.“

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Azmat Hussain July 24, 2010 at 7:03 am: The problem is not with the writer, the problem is that most readers are not doing their own taxes, and have no clue as to what percentages mean.

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James Underberg July 28, 2010 at 7:24 am: Megan McArdle’s post is delusional.

RJ Escow deconstructs Megan McArdle – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/elizabeth-warren-and-her_b_659797.html

Mike Konczal deconstructs Megan McArdle – http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/megan-mcardles-hack-post-on-elizabeth-warrens-scholarship/

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