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I really dislike articles that use the amorphous notional "we."

In this case, maybe "we" refers to newspaper writers "mired in debates over macroeconomic models" but I doubt newspaper writers are going to "to light a fire under the country’s loners, its contrarians and its narrow, ambitious outsiders."

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I would have assumed that, being the New York Times, he referring to readers of the newspaper (Americans).

Quit intentionally being daft :P

That's one assumption. It might be convincing to me except that even though many people I know are NYT readers, nobody I know is "mired in debates over macroeconomic models." Who are these people?

I suppose its the we that's not me.

There's a fairly large debate going on about using fiscal/monetary stimulus (Keynesian) vs. no stimulus (Austrian). It's not just eggheads, almost everyone following the economic scene is discussing this issue ATM....FWIW I think we need some fiscal stimulus in the form of public works projects ;)

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