On Sunday PaulKrugman made the idiotic statement that there was "tremendously more money" to be made by being a skeptic of Man-Made-Global-Warming than there is in the church of MMGW. A complete...
This guest post originally appeared at TheAtlantic.com ... PaulKrugman and I seem to agree that the worst part of a recession is unemployment. Losing value in your 401(k) is terrible, but not, for most people, catastrophic. Losing your business or your job, on the other hand, is wretched, particularly when there are six job hunters for every job opening. Where we differ is that Krugman...
A serious question regarding PaulKrugman: Has there ever been a more partisan hack pretending to be an economist'PaulKrugman, November 29, 2009:...the federal government could provide jobs by ... providing jobs. It’s time for at least a small-scale version of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, one that would offer relatively low-paying (but much...
Apparently, enough others noted PaulKrugman's comments on debt and deficits over the weekend that he was compelled to pen this retort at his NY Times blog. When I was on This Week yesterday, George Will tried his hand at the debt scare thing, saying that we’re in terrible shape because by 2019 the interest on the debt will be SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. (That should be read...
Well, well, well. ClimateGate came up on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. PaulKrugman said there’s “no smoking gun in there” and that “people have never seen what academic discussion looks like.” Translation: You’re all too stupid to understand so shut up and leave it to the smart ones. Nice try, dude. PaulKrugman On...
Things to come PaulKrugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, November 30, 2009 What I see is years of terrible job markets, combined with political paralysis. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/things-to-come/
Ira Stoll submits: On his blog, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist PaulKrugman implies that the concern about the declining value of the dollar as measured against gold or other currencies is driven by anti-Obama partisanship: Even now, the dollar is stronger than it was in early 2008. And the fall since its financial-panic peak (when everyone was rushing into the safety of...
Things to come - PaulKrugman Blog - NYTimes.com The short version: The stimulus was way too small and now people are absurdly worrying about deficits for the first time since the last Democrat was in office. We are in for a rocky road ahead. Start with the short-term economics. What we’re in right now is the aftermath of a giant financial crisis, which typically leads to a prolonged...
It takes only a couple of paragraphs in his latest bit of opinioneering before historian Niall Ferguson goes after economist PaulKrugman again. He deploys a combination of econo-name-calling (“deficit-loving-economist”) and quotes out of context (a favorite Ferguson gambit is to take an expansionary Krugman quote and re-use it in recessionary times). I am increasingly...
Would a Tobin tax solve all our problems? Of course not. But it could be part of the process of shrinking our bloated financial sector. On this, as on other issues, the Obama administration needs to free its mind from Wall Street’s thrall. via Economist’s View: PaulKrugman: Taxing the Speculators.
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the Sunday panel included PaulKrugman, along with resident panelist, George Will. The recent scandal noted as “Climategate” was brought up, as the discussion veered toward Cap & Tax and Obama’s upcoming trip to Copenhagen to discuss so-called “climate change.” Well, New York Times’ PaulKrugman...