Good thing I didn't come here for informed economic commentary. Now back to the blogosphere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you know more than others do, that's great—but then you should either share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn, or just accept that people are wrong on the internet. Posting supercilious putdowns doesn't help anything.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
May I suggest the following addition to HN: Each post-requires a self rating 1-5 Likert on their expertise/experience in the topic, then allow a sorting feature of greatest to least expertise.
Commenting about things they don't know about is...what human beings do.
Which is a breath of fresh air compared to certain places where everyone believes they are the best informed and most well thought out.
There are a lot (if not most) of comments here where the commenter clearly doesn't hold that position.
That's so far off the mark for macroeconomics it's not even funny.
I would argue a theoretical physicist could produce more macro-economically sound models than a tenured professor of macro-economics.
The former at least would have a deeper understanding/appreciation of the math.