# Is it a Sam Stone economic prediction?  Then it's guaranteed to be wrong.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 26, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191 "2011-08-26T16:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191/41 "2011-08-28T17:00:30Z")

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> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#):
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> To **Hentor** :
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> \*\*Sam Stone \*\*is very very dogmatic. He reminds me of 1970s Marxists.  
> For some reason, he kinda of serves as the “Conservative that I would piss on if he was on fire” by many liberals of this board. Never understood why. There are a few self declared Conservatives here that, while not deserting their beliefs, can engage in a debate without regurgitating badly digested dogma in mile-long posts of great bore.
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> That said, you could have said your piece in GD, why the Pit?

I do agree that this is weak tea for the Pit, but (1) the original GD discussion spanned a couple of old threads, (2) I didn’t think it merited opening it’s own new GD discussion, and (3) **Uzi** is essentially correct. It is intended as an indictment of the general style and merits of the assertions of, and the overall level of predictive accuracy of, a specific poster in regards to economic or fiscal issues.

And a discussion on that last point certainly wouldn’t be a great debate.

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191/42 "2011-08-28T17:02:15Z")

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> [@Uzi](#):
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> I would have thought a GD thread asking if Sam still thinks his predictions hold water would have been far more appropriate if he wanted a real response.

I am 100% certain as to the answer to that question. In fact, we’ve already had that discussion in a number of different threads.

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