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cube13 on Dec 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up def...

In order for this to be true, she needed to make the argument that it is. She's not saying anything to that effect at all.

sillysaurus on Dec 20, 2012 [–]

If her point wasn't "corruption caused the financial meltdown," then why did she write this piece?

The simplest explanation is that she was, in fact, arguing that corruption caused the financial crisis.

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