Saturday, December 3, 2011

Senator McCain’s Economist Warns: If you Criticize Banksters They will Prolong Recessions

From the Big Picture blog:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/senator-mccain%E2%80%99s-economist-warns-if-you-criticize-banksters-they-will-prolong-recessions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29

Steven J. Davis, Senator McCain’s chief economics advisor during his presidential campaign, has written a political hit piece on the man that defeated his candidate. His co-authors were Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom. For the sake of brevity I will refer to the authors as “the authors” or “Davis.” They published the piece in

Bloomberg The article purports to be a straight scientific piece, but it is a partisan screed relying on faux statistics created by Davis to support his views. Davis’ statistical methodology is not simply unscientific, it is embarrassingly bad.

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