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I think the idea of an economic gossip thread is misguided. A career advice thread might be helpful, but the problem with economic gossip is that the only people who really know anything worth hearing work in jobs with fairly tight NDAs, limitations on talking to the press, limitations on posting in public forums, etc. Basically, people who know things work at institutions with lawyers who stop them from spreading that knowledge.
May I ask about the reason for the down vote?
Although I understand that what I said is not what the poster wanted to hear, it represents my view on the actual value of private vs. widespread public information. Further, it represents the view I believe the original poster would have on the actual value of private vs. widespread public information were the original poster to have more access to private information.
I down vote people who say posts I enjoy reading shouldn't exist, unless they've got really good arguments. I think there's plenty of non-secret but non-common interesting knowledge to be had about the economy/economics.
That seems like a fair standard. In the future I’ll try to phrase things like this as warnings to readers rather than question the existence of threads. Thanks for the guidance on how to improve.
I didn't vote you down, but maybe you got voted down 'cause "career advice" was subsumed under my idea of "economic gossip", and therefore your point seemed moot?