http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-age-of-creative-ambiguity/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-age-of-creative-ambiguity/#comment-457439 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:11:45 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4880#comment-457439 The Fed has been “printing money” like mad, amidst continuous warnings of hyperinflation and the end of the dollar as an international currency. So why, then, is the dollar on a rampage, approaching parity with the Euro? An additional mystery is why the politicians don’t prevail upon the Fed to fully fund their government-spending wish lists. Perhaps this would get the economy to the Fed’s mythical 2% inflation target.

]]> http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-age-of-creative-ambiguity/#comment-457415 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:57:37 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4880#comment-457415 So did Stendahl.
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/29/stendhal-on-love-crystallization/

]]> http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-age-of-creative-ambiguity/#comment-457389 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:03:15 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4880#comment-457389 So did JEFFREY Epstein…nootch!

]]> http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-age-of-creative-ambiguity/#comment-457387 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:06:50 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4880#comment-457387 “Charismatic” politicians are ones who are able to get away with making ambiguous statements. These are messages with multiple interpretations. This peculiar ability helps them to assemble a coalition of constituencies that might otherwise be at odds — and thereby get themselves elected. Another way to say it is that audiences who fall in love with the speaker give him or her a lot of slack. I think that Joseph Epstein mentioned that falling in love means agreeing to over-estimate the love object.

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