Krugman Krushed

I’m going to do two blog posts (this is the first), then I might be quiet for a while. I am still trying to catch up on various things… Von Pepe sends this great article explaining how Krugman was getting owned (I refuse to use the hip term) by his commenters. It got so bad […]

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Krugman Back to Being My “Favorite Blogger”

[UPDATE below.] I don’t know when I will learn… This Krugman blog post on Depression-era debt literally made my jaw drop. After chronicling how the federal debt went up under Herbert Hoover–thus making the “Hoover was a liquidationist Hayekian” thesis a bit awkward–Krugman then said, “OK, um, I owe Bob Murphy an apology. He set […]

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Parody Idea

As I clicked on his blog today–my favorite thing to do with my morning cup of tea–I started humming, “Kru-u-u-gman” to the tune of The Buckinghams’ song, “Susan.” So of course I pulled up the song to see it’s parody potential. It was better than I hoped. Just listen to the first 30 seconds to […]

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Krugman Has Booted the Hackers From His Blog Account

[UPDATE below.] OK I finally figured it out: Hackers must have left the CRU scene of the crime, and had temporarily gotten control of Krugman’s NYT blog account. But now things are back to normal. Today Krugman writes: So here’s where we are: China has done nothing to change its policy of massive currency manipulation, […]

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A Krugman Kontradiction?

In which the author does his best impersonation of Scott Sumner… I am really really trying to understand Krugman on his recent jihad against fiscal austerity proponents. (See this for example, when Krugman begins eating his own. His point is, “Hey, I’m not being partisan, I’m saying everyone is dumber than me.”) Of course as […]

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Krugman Lets the Cat Out of the Bag?

Remember in 1984 that there was one Party enthusiast who was so dogmatic and zealous for Big Brother that they had to take him out? I wonder if that’s Paul Krugman. He is almost charmingly transparent in his advocacy of bigger government. For example, check out this blog post on financial regulation, with the revealing […]

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Must…Defend…Krugman…

…though it pains me. But c’mon guys, we don’t need to put words into Krugman’s mouth like this: Krugman was NOT admitting there would be death panels. We can say he’s a naive fool for thinking we’ll limit the “advisory panels” (that can make binding decisions) to truly eradicating only ineffective treatments–and let’s leave aside […]

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