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Faulty Logic

Reader comment on item: What Turkey's Riots Mean
in response to reader comment: What goes up must come down

Submitted by Amin Riaz (United Kingdom), Jun 24, 2013 at 20:51

"We all learn in Economics 101 that what goes up must come down which means that Erdogan should have been working on sustaining the economic boom of the past decade"

As per usual your logic lets you down. . . if boom, inevitably, leads to bust as you suggest - then there might not be much Erdogan could have done.

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