Dawn Bennett, Host of Financial Myth Busting, Writes Article, "BS by Any Other Name"
Humbug, poppycock, balderdash, twaddle, hooey, drivel. Our grandparents had quite a vocabulary for what we might today describe (if we're being polite) as BS. We might as well add "statements from the Federal Reserve, government bureaucrats and politicians" to that list. The question, though, is what do we really mean when we say something is BS? Philosopher and Emeritus Professor at Princeton Harry G. Frankfurt put some ideas on that forth in a 1986 essay that was later expanded into...
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