I wouldn't brag about it. Certainly not if the topic were international macroeconomics.

Regardless of where you are politically, I think that it is safe to say that when it comes to the relationship of savings and the trade deficit, Brad DeLong has still got his head screwed on right. I'm with him 100 percent in this dispute.

It's on other issues, when he gets outside his area of expertise and goes into loony conspiracy theory, that he trespasses against Nugent and Mosler's comparative advantage.