Noam Scheiber's NYT Book Review Asks Us to Imagine That Someone Using Data Had Warned of the Housing Bubble

It's best to ignore personal slights in Washington and elsewhere, but this one goes beyond my personal feelings. In a review of Nate Silver's new book, Noam Scheiber notes the effectiveness with which Silver uses data to analyze a wide range of policy issues and then tells us:

"it’s not hard to imagine Silver and his ilk one day letting the air out of an inflating housing bubble."

Yeah, right. It shouldn't be too hard to imagine since that is what some of us were trying to do from 2002 onward...