It's Always "Something Else"?

Once again, not to be mistaken for Tuesday's With Morrie, it's time for Tuesdays With Trump.

"This is recession fatigue in action, blaming otherwise social constructs for economic results because nobody (in the mainstream) was willing to suggest Ben Bernanke was wrong not just about "stimulus," but that the Great "Recession" might actually deserve the quotation marks. And so, in the years since, it is always, always something else.

Most infamous was the Polar Vortex of winter 2014. In what I think is a clear example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy (Latin for "after this, therefore resulting from it"; meaning confusing correlation for cause), the media, and even economists, were quick to jump on unusually cold weather to blame for what was very obvious and alarmingly widespread economic feebleness." - Jeffrey Snider

In my best Kasey Kasem... As for the entertaining litany of excuses for poor economic performance or financial results, viz. post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy being utilzed for falsity in econometrics and financial reporting...

Coming in at #4 in our countdown, the Polar Vortex and.... 

Coming in at #3 in our countdown, US Presidential Election 2016 aka..

Uncle Sam's Clowntown or 
Fuck the World or
Rock Bottom Shitshow or
Yankee Doodle's Suicide Pact 2016... (Tip O' The Hat to John Oliver)

#3 and #4 were long after these two all time post millennium winners in that category...

Coming in at #2 in out countdown... Hurricane Katrina...

and coming in at #1 in our countdown... The 9/11 Terrorists. 

Thanks for listening and keep your feet on the ground, keep reaching for the stars and remember, it's always "something else".

Circa mid August 2005....  The Nattering One mused....

I like being a Cunning Realist, but I prefer being a Cunning Linguist....

Trebek queries "what will replace the phrase "terrorists" in quarterly statements and forward looking estimates?"

Answer: What is Hurricane Katrina. 

(Post hurricane estimates have Katrina as the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Who knew this corporate excuse "du Jour" would be so costly?) 

Question to GeeDubya during Katrina: What do you think of Roe vs Wade?

Answer from Shrub: I think people should get out of New Orleans anyway they can..... 
Oh boy...