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A few more opinions of Stockman
Sunday, March 31, 2013
'David Stockman Goes Way, Way Over the Top'

The wingnut of the day award is easy to pick, it's David Stockman:

Cranky Old Men, by Paul Krugman: ... Actually, I was disappointed in Stockman’s piece. I thought there would be some kind of real argument, some presentation, however tendentious, of evidence. Instead it’s just a series of gee-whiz, context- and model-free numbers embedded in a rant — and not even an interesting rant. It’s cranky old man stuff, the kind of thing you get from people who read Investors Business Daily, listen to Rush Limbaugh, and maybe, if they’re unusually teched up, get investment advice from Zero Hedge. Sad.

David Stockman Goes Way, Way Over the Top, by Jared Bernstein: He has a featured piece in today’s NYT which, while about 11.8% absolutely and totally on target, is mostly a horrific screed, an ahistorical, dystopic, Hunger-Games vision of America based on debt obsession and willful ignorance of macroeconomics and the impact of market failure. ...

David Stockman wants to pee in your cornflakes, Kids Prefer Cheese: Wow. David Stockman confuses cause and effect, goes all gold-buggy, slanders Milton Friedman, and just generally comes unhinged in a massive hissy fit in today's NYT. ...

Update: See also David Henderson's "David Stockman Screeches."

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/03/david-stockman-goes-way-way-over-the-top.html