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A Freudian Explanation of Paul Krugman

Phil Magness posted this in the comments of my Facebook link to Krugman’s banana post. I of course knew about this memo, but I’m not sure if I ever saw the section header. You may recall that this was the period in Krugman’s life when he flirted with Austrian economics.

Krugman’s Kontortions on France

I really wasn’t looking to ding him; I was just doing background to give context to Veronique de Rugy’s interview with Tom Woods. But as I summarized on Twitter: “Krugman: French economy in ’13 shows tax hikes not bad. French economy in ’14 shows austerity awful.” Details here.

Krugman: Belgium Outperforms Economically Because It Lacked Government

Really, that was his recent argument. Details here.

Krugman Is a Denier When It Comes to Climate Economics Consensus

Details here.

Krugman’s Latest Post: “Murphy Was Right”

Well, not his exact words, but see for yourself. I’m serious, this isn’t a Kontradiction, this is a flat-out contradiction, is it not? If you want to be super squirmy and get him out of this Houdini-style, I suppose you could argue, “Krugman 2014 is clearly contradicting Delong 2013, but not necessarily Krugman 2013. Krugman […]

DeLong and Krugman Have a High Rate of Deprecation (sic)

We also would have accepted, “Why oh why can’t we have better Keynesian bloggers?!” This isn’t worth me writing up in another outlet, but I know some of you like this petty stuff… (I sure do.) ==> Some of you may remember that Krussell and Smith wrote up a Note on Piketty, explaining why his […]

More Piketty Stuff

==> Piketty only regrets not jacking those trend lines up even more, because of the blockbuster March 2014 PowerPoint. ==> Scott Winship clarifies just how ambiguous the data really are, notwithstanding Krugman’s recent “denier” finger-wagging. ==> Speaking of which, in that article Krugman linked to a Kopczuk paper to bolster Krugman’s claims that everybody knows […]

Krugman on VA Health Care as a Model for Reform

I sometimes fancy myself as a sophisticated economist who knows what’s up, wise to all the hijinx and mayhem flowing out of DC. But nope, I am still a little bunny cowering in the corner. Yesterday I actually hesitated before relating the VA hospital scandal to ObamaCare and socialized medicine more broadly, wondering if that was […]