Brooks Does the Big Lie on Stimulus (with no shame)

David Brooks is playing the "it's all so confusing, we just can't really know anything about economic policy" game. The point is to try to make it intellectually respectable to question whether stimulus spending can boost the economy.

This is important for the right, because the evidence from the austerity induced double-dip in the UK and euro zone is making it ever harder to deny that government spending can and does stimulate the economy just as the old textbook models predict. In the wake...