Robert Samuelson Hypes the Views of Always Wrong Economists to Tell Us to Get Used to Being Poor

Economics is a great profession for people who are not very good at their work. Messing up all the time does not affect at all your ability to maintain a high-paying job and get people to take your views seriously. 

Hence we have Robert Samuelson warning us that we might have to just accept that we will be faced with continuing slow growth and high unemployment. First off, it is important to sort out two different issues which Samuelson mushes together.

The first one is the extent to wh...