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THE POLITICS OF STIMULUS SPENDING: A roundup on the Veronique de Rugy / Nate Silver debate. Plus?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE POLITICS OF STIMULUS SPENDING: A roundup on the Veronique de Rugy / Nate Silver debate.

Plus this: “At this point, there are precious few people who are willing to pretend that the stimulus has achieved anything other than more red ink. Indeed, my gut sense (not a regression analysis!) is that Obama’s crew of cracker-jack economists such as Christina Romer, whose academic reputation was made in part by deflating claims about previous efforts at stimulus spending, knows that the economy ain’t going up anytime soon and that when it does it’s not going to be because of weatherizing foreclosed homes in Detroit.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).