Ah. Noah Smith goes reading in the fresh waters, and finds that people there are still claiming that there was a dramatic improvement in growth once Reagan/Friedman came along.

I’ve written about this many times, e.g. here. The great era of US economic growth was the postwar generation; even during the good years of the 90s we didn’t achieve comparable growth, and overall, the post-Reagan era was marked by slower growth than the equivalent period of time pre-Reagan. And I haven’t even gotten into the income distribution thing.

All of which makes me wonder: what goes on in these peoples’ minds? Do they never even think of actually looking at the numbers, because they know that Reagan ushered in a great boom? Inquiring minds (which they obviously don’t have) want to know.