Attempted DeLong Smackdown Watch: Unsuccessful Attempt by 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...