If you had a fact-checking computer and you put Geoffrey R. Stone's Huffington Post column, Obama on Republican Economic Policy: "It Doesn't Work" in it, your computer would smoke, sputter and blow up. He makes Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein, the Don Quixote-Sancho Panza duo of post-modern economics, look reality-based. His errors-per-word ratio is off the charts. Speaking of charts, Stone had four of them. I have four major problems with them: (1) the numbers were seemingly made up, or have been "homogenized" and "adjusted" in ways that Phil Jones and Michael Mann would covet; (2) he shows no data for Obama; (3) the charts are misleading; and (4) he draws the wrong conclusions from them. Other than that ... My attempts at reproducing these charts are given below. My data sources and methods are described in detail at the end of this article. Also, I include results for President Obama. Feel free to compare these charts to Stone's and to the sources I provide later. I simply do not know where he....
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