Gifted article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/opinion/trump-lies-charts-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U0.Ao8l.jCDOpq-4O9ld&smid=url-shareOPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.
By Steven Rattner
Graphics by Aileen Clarke
Mr. Rattner is a contributing Opinion writer. He served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.
July 24, 2024
For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nomination for president for a third time. He used the opportunity, as well as his June debate with President Biden, to repeat favorite false claims and exaggerations. That Mr. Trump has a proclivity for saying untrue things is well known. But in his latest campaign for the White House, I’ve been struck by what appears to be an escalation in both the frequency of Mr. Trump’s lies and the outrageousness of his distortions.
Figuring the innumerable ways in which racism and colonialism created the foundations of our current economic system would likely be entirely impossible.
Taking account of it, and figuring out the influence of racism on current economic conditions, is in fact necessary to make economics a credible science.
See #Mandelbrot's The Misbehavior of Markets
https://openlibrary.org/borrow/ia/misbehaviourofma0000mand?ref=ol