A reminder of the consequences of approaching systemic risks, based on flimsy or groundless assumptions that things will turn out okay, is seen in the bland reassurances that came back in response to repeated warnings about the massive risks facing the banking system far in advance of the 2007-2008 crisis.
But the haste and confusion of the planning, the determination to keep grim forecasts out of public view, the groundless assumptions, the desire to do it on the cheap — all this left Erdmann and his colleagues poorly prepared for what awaited them when they finally reached Baghdad, on April 23rd.
Making explicit groundless assumptions, exposing fallacious arguments, and distinguishing between statements that can and cannot be proven are among the skills students will possess from their first day in college.
The FLSA also got into the news with an editorial in the March 18 Wall Street Journal, "Labor's Blueberry Police". Back in 2012, using nothing more than a groundless and mistaken assumption about the amounts that workers could pick in an hour, the Labor Department accused several Oregon growers of violating the law.
It was a groundless fear.
Nor are they a groundless middle-class concern.
Mr. Carr weaves what I consider a groundless story of inferential intrigue.
The Obama administration, economic experts and some Republicans dismissed that notion as a groundless conspiracy theory.
This is a groundless and absurd smear campaign against the DPRK.
"It's a groundless lie that a female was among the mujahideen attackers," the spokesman said.
To outsiders, Sicilians claimed that the Mafia was a fable, a groundless slur.
