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MacroBusiness Censors Comments At Odds With Narrative

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 4:03

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The comments section at MacroBusiness, once a lively space for robust economic discussion, now often acts as little more than an echo chamber.

If the response from readers is strong enough in disagreement with the site authors, then those commenting are belittled and ignored (as I wrote in MacroBusiness Persists with War on Cash in Australia). If there is an alternative view or statistics put forward which don’t fit the MacroBusiness narrative, then they are ignored, name calling begins or in some cases the comments are edited or deleted altogether.

The most recent example of the latter was in the comments section of their recently released report ‘Can the great “can kick” save Australia?’ (paid subscriber only content). Basically the report amalgamates a range of charts and narrative which supports an outlook that several dark clouds on the horizon (end of car manufacturing, slow down in construction and mining, etc) will converge in a short space of time and crater Australia’s economy. They have been writing to this script for a number of years now, slowly pushing out the timing as unexpected economic circumstances have impacted their predictions.

The report was released late Christmas Eve and I happened to be up at the time. After reading their report and having seen some statistics on manufacturing employment at Pete Wargent’s blog around the same time, I decided to post these numbers under the report:

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The report posited that there is basically no hope that these converging economic headwinds might be offset by some other factor which hasn’t been considered. I was simply suggesting that if the Australian Dollar is smashed to 50c or lower (against the USD), as has been predicted on MacroBusiness, then perhaps a resurgence in Australian manufacturing could be one positive factor to keep an eye on:

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My comment was met with a ridiculous level of hostility (particularly from David Llewellyn-Smith):

My original comment (first screenshot above) was later deleted along with a number of replies.

It’s a real shame that the editors / owners of MacroBusiness feel the need to use personal insults and name calling to push their agenda. It’s also ironic that they attack others for ‘selective analysis’ while censoring current or potential future positive economic developments (that they’ve ignored in their own analysis) from being posted in the comment section of their site.

Note: A number of my comments have been edited and/or deleted recently on MacroBusiness. To date I have only noticed edits which remove part of the content rather than add to it (this can still distort context). Be skeptical of my comments there if something looks amiss or I don’t respond to your replies. You can always reach out via Twitter or email.

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