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That's not the same person. The Tiffany C Brown running this company is a black woman.

http://www.tiffanycbrown.co...

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Heckovajob!

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I was told there would be no math.

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of course, it is the THIRST MUTILATOR!!!

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"You kind of have to hand it to Tiffany Brown, an entrepreneur, 'mogul,' designer, wellness specialist, doctor-of-something (her LinkedIn doesn’t say!) out of Atlanta. She’s got hustle!" Got hustle?? Don't you mean is a hustler? Gotta wonder who she knows in the Twitler administration....

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Maybe a rubber room. Saves time, since I suspect we have a ways to go with this, and can be rented out for other sufferers.

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I've had less nutritious ones.

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I too am dangerous, and in all my time in school no one ever thought to question the basic tenets of market theory. I've come to view economics as the collection of anecdotes, tall tales, apocryphal stories, and fables, calling it data, and forcing of that "data" into charts and graphs, for which an annual prize is awarded. Economics is to research as PowerPoint is to review-a systematic method of obfuscation.Not that I'm disagreeing with you, I just like the sound of my own typing.

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Yup, I'm with you, especially as economics moves away from simple private transactions. (Again, a dangerous typist on the subject, so I'll leave it.)

Funniest thing, though, was in the one course I took in "macroeconomics." (Or "fiction.") Had to take it. Was taught by a guy who'd been a junior member of some Dem preznit's Council of Economic Advisors. His general point was one of extreme skepticism.

He said that the macroeconomic "forecasting" models were mostly a sham, because they really showed relationships of independent and dependent variables at a point in time ... just a snapshot, not a forecast. And then, he said, the big-name macro gods would make assumptions about independent variables in the future, and then proclaim that they could "predict" the dependent variable. So "Please clap."

Funniest class? He stood in front of 15 to 20 of us glazed-over masters' level victims, deriving some weird shit on the board. Somehow, his derivation wasn't working out (he shoulda lied to us; we'd never have known). Without saying a word, he erased a lot of his work. Then he drew a stick figure in side profile, looking like it was kicking a ball. And a big, arcing dotted line across the board. And said something like, "That's enough. [I'm punting.] Class is over." And he walked out.

See? Economics CAN be fun!

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Yup, the market fetishists refuse to admit that there are very few segments of the economy that are genuine free markets. If you can't find out which cell phone company has the best coverage in your area, that's not a free market - information assymetry. If there's only one supermarket in town, that's not a free market - geographic monopoly. There are definitely places in the country with lots of choice, and where you can find out things, but they're few & far between, mainly big cities.

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the Chicago School is big on equations & numerical models of the economy, but not so big on whether those models actually depict reality. Normally I'm in favor of academia, but not in this case. They're influential because they support the Robber Barons, who invite them to Davos & Bilderberg for moral support.

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Tom Slee's "No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart" is a great take-down of economic choice theory. Most places don't have choices for cable companies, retail stores, or sometimes even supermarkets.

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There are ones they <.b>can't grift from?

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Just wanted to verify that u are indeed a brain dead troll, wandering out from under your bridge. U can go back to sucking hannitys dick now.

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The address in Atlanta for Tribute Contracting is a Virtual Office. Servcorp provides you with a phone receptionist and the shared use of a conference room.

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Sounds legit.

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