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March 6, 2009
Score Another One for Nate Silver
Back when the president first introduced the recovery bill, Nate Silver predicted that the dollar amount was lower than expected because the president would allow Congress to attach more spending and therefore increase the total stimulus (more spending = more stimulus).
Once again, Nate Silver was exactly right.
Of course this isn't great news because the president seriously misjudged what would happen. But goddamn. Silver is a wizard.
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Posted By Bob Cesca | March 6, 2009 4:50 PM
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Silver seems to actually possess the magical powers that people would superstitiously ascribe to Alan Greenspan.
Posted by: joshd at March 6, 2009 5:13 PM
Nate is scary smart. I'm glad he's on our side. Of course he appears to be on the side of facts.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 6, 2009 5:20 PM
When the world gets overwhelmingly confusing, I turn to fivethirtyeight.com.
QT
Posted by: QueenTiye at March 6, 2009 5:35 PM
Git, that's the weird thing about facts. They just 'appear' and shit like that.
Posted by: jane at March 6, 2009 8:13 PM
I had a chance to have a drink and a chat with Nate Silver last December at an Organizing for America conference in Chicago and, I have to confess, at first, I couldn't shake the impression that he's a total geek who is barely comfortable in his own skin. But, after awhile, despite his apparent discomfort at hanging out with a largish number of people around him and his nearly complete lack of eye contact with anyone, I got comfortable with him and realized the problem was more with me than him. Go figure.
He gave a talk at the Conference and was, of course, brilliant.
Posted by: Eclectablog at March 6, 2009 10:49 PM
