Friday, April 19, 2013

Recently I suggested that Stockman is a reasonably smart guy and was just looking at the budget from the perspective of an accountant when he should have been looking at it from the perspective of a macroeconomist...

Posted by dkuehn at 2:49 PM
...I was wrong.

He's apparently just ignorant and a jerk.

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  1. AnonymousApril 19, 2013 at 2:55 PM

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    1. Jonathan FinegoldApril 19, 2013 at 4:11 PM

      Blogger has really sh!tty spam control.

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    2. Daniel KuehnApril 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM

      :)

      It's not that bad - they come in a lot easier now because I removed the captcha for commenting - it was too obnoxious for commenters. However, that lets a lot more spam get in than ever used to.

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    3. MinApril 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM

      I know that I complained about captcha. Thanks for the relief. :)

      But on other sites I just keep cycling until something legible appears. So it's OK with me if you start using it again. :)

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  3. edarniwApril 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM

    What in that link says "jerk"? The tone is no different from Krugman or Delong...

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    1. Jonathan FinegoldApril 19, 2013 at 9:08 PM

      They can be jerks too. One thing that pops out wrt Stockman is him calling Bernanke an "academic zealot." Seems like a typical case of projection, since that's what Stockman appears to be (minus the "academic" maybe). Calling someone is a zealot is one of the easiest ways to discredit someone w/o actually addressing their ideas.

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    2. MinApril 20, 2013 at 9:27 PM

      Any ad hominem attack is a red flag for me. :)

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    3. Wonks AnonymousApril 24, 2013 at 11:46 AM

      How can someone be a jerk if they sound like Delong!? Hilarious.

      Also, Stockman completely fails to understand how Bernanke's credit-centric point of view on the Great Depression differs from Friedman's monetarism, and how that led to the policy of bailing out banks while paying interest on reserves to clamp down on inflation. Jeffrey Rogers Hummel & Dave Henderson can explain that bit to him.

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  4. The Libertarian Standard BearerApril 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM

    What's amusing is that the sales of Stockman's book had a nice bump after Krugman went after him on his blog. Lots of dick measuring going between these various parties.

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