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This week is more downgrades and more political ranting. Recriminations, spin, more assertions. Calls for confidence. Portents of disaster. This is our economy and its stewards, for better or worse.

By Ryan Clark | Updated on September 27, 2011

This week is more downgrades and more political ranting. Recriminations, spin, more assertions. Calls for confidence. Portents of disaster. This is our economy and its stewards, for better or worse. 

As an editor, I spend the majority of my day asking myself the same question in one form or another: “Is this correct?” or if you’re negatively attuned: “Is this wrong?”  As managing editor of a website, naturally, I receive some correspondence indicating answers to these questions to varying states of certainty—to my amusement or embarrassment. I am, therefore, keenly aware of the myriad ways one person can be wrong and for what reasons during the course of a single day. I spend a lot of time thinking about wrongness and I wonder about our government and our economy.

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