She’s a bit off on the numbers, too.

As noted here, by actual blogger Tbogg (not to be confused with “Tbow” who is Donkey Joel – Here might be the most ignorant and presumptuous media post ever — Achenbach’s “man“):

Megan McArdle – neither economist nor historian:

But the last two recessions were characterized by lingering unemployment–the infamous “jobless recovery” under Clinton and Bush.

Reality:

When Clinton was in the White House, the economy generated 17.6 million jobs during the corresponding period — from January 1993 to December 1998.

Bites:

The Unemployment Rate Was 4.2 Percent in 1999 — the Lowest Since 1969. The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in December bringing the average unemployment rate for 1999 to 4.2 percent — the lowest since 1969. The unemployment rate has fallen for seven years in a row. It has remained below 5 percent for 30 months in a row. For women the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent — the lowest since 1953.

Obviously unemployment is not understood by those who should be unemployed.

A professor weights in on McArdle, on another occasion:

But the punchline for this story is that Megan McArdle in fact knows very little — not nothing, but not much either.

Which brings me back to my headline.  I don’t read McArdle much because I know she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and the glibness of her ignorance and the infantile quality of her ideology … piss me off.

Well, at least, for a person who claims to be an economics expert, McArdle knows her unemployment facts.