Attempted (But Unsuccessful) DeLong Smackdown Watch: Kartik "Malibu Barbie" Athreya

In terms reminiscent of Malibu Barbie's "math is hard," now comes Kartik Athreya from the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank to say "Economics Is Hard":

Matthew Yglesias, John Stossel, Robert Samuelson, and Robert Reich... [are:] exceedingly unlikely... [to:] have anything interesting to say about economic policy....

Deficits, short-term interest rate targets, sovereign debt are all chewed over with a level of self-assuredness that only someone who doesn’t know more could. The list of...