Over at Grasping Reality: Whence the Right-Wing Confidence Back a Year Ago in ObamaCare’s Failure?

Hoisted from the Internet from One Year Ago: Please read:

• Richard Epstein
• John Cochrane

and tell me what is going on here. Anyone have any plausible answers for me?

The lack of any public or even private willingness to mark one’s beliefs to market is amazing. As is the inexorable and irresistible desire to call the pitch a strike before the pitcher has even walked to the mound.

It’s not as though either Cochrane or Epstein has the confidence that would have been created by a lifetime of calling the balls and strikes more accurately than anyone else that might have motivated such hubris.

Nor do either of them have any standing other than that that comes from a perception of being smart.