Niall Ferguson mistakes the census hiring blip as a "stimulus" effect

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The guy doesn't have a clue what the fuck he is talking about.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/the-census-zombie-eats-another-brain/

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/08/open-mouth-insert-foot-going-viral/

This is about his infamous Newsweek article, the links above take you through the latest finding on how bad that piece was.

On edit, actually Niall makes this blunder in an interview on Bloomberg at the second link. But it goes to how he arrived at some of his claims in the Newsweek article.