Funny, That

Atrios, aka economist Duncan Black: I Could Have Told You That a Couple of Years Ago:

Suddenly everyone's jumping on the idea that maybe jobs and economic growth are a wee bit important. But, you know, all the Very Serious People were wrong for the right reasons while the hippies were right for the wrong reasons, so the VSPs were really right and the hippies were really wrong.

It's amazing how that always works.

See also: The Iraq War.

Rinse. Repeat. Forever.