You might think I’m obsessed with Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen – B1 to me and Speccie readers. But for an economics commentator, he is the gift that keeps giving. He is simply comically bad.
How can one person utter so many incorrect statements, non sequiturs, illogical propositions – in a word, howlers? Although I was reminded of this fundamental truth written by Mark Twain that, ‘You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place’.
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