Thursday, December 04, 2003

"All of this has happened since the tariffs were introduced, but did any of it happen because they were introduced? Gary Clyde Hufbauer of the Institute for International Economics (IIE), a Washington think-tank, warns against the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy"

post hoc ergo propter hoc - the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
Amazing word

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