Irony: Kerry did no better than Bush at Yale

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Thread starter russ_watters
Start date Jun 7, 2005
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In summary, John Kerry's grades at Yale were virtually identical to President Bush's record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign. Neither one of them could manage an A in anything? Good heavens! Is it just that incredibly hard to score 90% or better in a course at Yale? Neither one of them could manage an A in anything? Good heavens! Is it just that incredibly hard to score 90% or better in a course at Yale?

Jun 10, 2005

kcballer21

loseyourname said:

I don't even think it's that hard to learn, but people seem to find it terribly boring and no one learns it unless they have to.

I know what you mean. The concepts are pretty intuitive. The only thing that might not be so intuitive is comparative advantage. Otherwise, when you get to the more statistical side of economics it becomes pretty complicated, more rigorous.

The thing with the president is that his advisor, Greg Mankiw, is a good economist, so you would think that by default as long as George read what was written for him, he would make some economic sense. It's funny how politics changes all that.