Talk:Donald Luskin

Intellectual property violation

The article mentioned that the feud between DeLong and Luskin began when Luskin called DeLong on intellectual property violations on his webpage. This intimates that DeLong's debate with Luskin stems from a perceived slight instead of simply a vigorous disagreement. Delong's motivation may be as implied, but unless DeLong actually admits it, the assertion shouldn't be on wikipedia.

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Why is it that Brad Delong's entry does not contain a single negative link about him (of which there are many) - yet Luskin's does. Removing until consistency is achieved... This is a cross article effort, but the unfairness if blatant.

This article is full of loaded and biased words and phrases.

Examples:

"in the breathless and hyperbolic style of the times"

"it [sic] hard to know what, if anything, he meant."

"Oddly enough, for a free market Republican"

"non-stop hype and luck"

"a collapse kicking off a bear market in tech shares which continues to this day"

"He has a particular animosity"

"Critics, especially Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong, argue" [one critic listed here, not plural]

In all, the article is so biased that it hardly qualifies as neutral. Even if you hate Luskin, you must clearly see the lack of a NPOV.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.15.44.125 (talk • contribs) 14:06, 10 August 2005

Removed Hit Piece

I removed the two-paragraph hit piece. If you want to mention his involvement in a failed investment fund, do so in a manner that is in accordance with wikipedia policies. The first two paragraphs didn't fit at all with the rest of the article, and in no way could they be considered to have a neutral point of view.—Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkPNeyer (talk • contribs) 18:11, 18 August 2005

"Critics?"

"Critics argue that Luskin knows very little about economics and makes frequent errors" There is no citation for this sentence, nor does it name the "critics" and why they think he knows very little.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.145.114.236 (talk • contribs) 20:29, 25 July 2006

Also, same deal for the subseqent sentence, "Many of Luskin's supporters counter...". Names and citations, please, or else this passage should be reworked or chopped. Mlibby 17:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Education?

What kind of education does Donald Luskin have? Does he have some kind of an academic degree in something? Ossi 22:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Krugman spat

I agree with deletion. This is, in essence, a typical blogspat that has once or twice spilled over into the NYT because Krugman has a column there. We can't report the whole thing (eg DeLong's "stupidest man alive" characterization of Luskin) without violating WP:RS and WP:BLP, but confining the account to the occasional breakouts into MSM is equally unsatisfactory. It would be far better to have some reasonably neutral description of the main points put forward by Luskin in his capacity as a columnist, with some suitably referenced critical responses if they can be round. JQ (talk) 01:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm quite neutral on it--I know little of Luskin. Just figured a big cut like that should get some comment first. CRETOG8(t/c) 02:13, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Let's leave it a bit and see if we get more discussion. Unless someone has a strong case, I suggest we delete after a couple of days.JQ (talk) 10:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Strongly disagree. This is a notable spat and we can't ignore it. Gamaliel (talk) 18:34, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Protection

Wow, the history on this page is ugly. Thus, this page will be protected for a full week; in that time, I suggest that instead of edit-warring there be discussion here to determine the issues that are being raised and what changes need to be made. I'll monitor, and I suggest that a third opinion be requested in that time as well, either at WP:3O or WP:RFC to draw more eyes into the discussion. Being unfamiliar with the topic, I'll try and look through the article myself and see whether I can offer some cogent commentary as well. Discussion, please. Tony Fox (arf!) 17:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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