In a blogpost discussing the push by many groups to get a financial transactions tax the Post told readers:

“The White House believes it would be easy to evade, could hamper economic growth, and might make markets more volatile, not less so. Instead, Obama has proposed a new “financial crisis responsibility fee” on big banks, which would raise about $61 billion.”

Just when you thought that the Washington Post could not go any further in bringing its readers off the wall statements from self-imagined great thinkers, it rises to the occasion. Today we have Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, giving us “five myths about America’s decline.”

This short piece contains heaping doses of silliness.

The Washington Post was a strong supporter of NAFTA at the time the deal was approved. It continues to be a strong defender of the pact nearly two decades later. It has repeatedly shown itself willing to make up facts or just ignore them to push its pro-NAFTA line.

Shorter Frank Luntz, shorter Jonah Goldberg.

Okay, I know that picking on George Will might seem like cheap fun, but as an oped columnist for the Washington Post we are supposed to take him seriously.

Readers will not doubt be asking if Japan can be saved from the Washington Post after reading Fred Hiatt’s column titled (in the print edition) “Can Japan Save Itself?” The column slams readers with large masses of inaccuracy that pass for conventional wisdom in Washington.

Sunday, the Washington Post ran a piece from the Pete Peterson funded Fiscal Times warning about the “debt bomb” from student loan debt. (The Post did not identify Pete Peterson as the funding source for the Fiscal Times.)

The piece manages to get just about everything wrong. To start with, the piece did not even get the rate of student debt accumulation right.

With cutbacks in the offing at the Washington Post, it is good to see that they are holding fast to some their brighter lights who provide important insights such as this on President Muslim forcing Sharia birth control laws down the throats of Catholic Bishops.

The lead Washington Post editorial noted (and excused) the Fed’s complete failure to understand the dangers posed by the housing bubble (the economy is soooo complicated) and then somehow used this failure as an argument against its housing proposals. The Fed’s main housing proposals were that Fannie and Freddie should make it easier for underwater homeowners to refinance and also that they should look to convert some of their foreclosed properties to rental units.

The trade deficit between the United States and the rest of the world was the major imbalance in the global economy in the last decade. It created the gap in demand that was filled by the stock bubble in the 90s and the housing bubble in the last decade. It is striking that the Post’s opinion pages are only open to people who try to conceal this fact rather than economists who try to explain this history to readers.