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Is It Intellectually Honest to Chortle About This?

Major Freedom tipped me off to this Bloomberg interview with Krugman, which aired in March 2017: So in the interview, Krugman says 3% growth is not possible, even if they made him dictator. (Really.) Krugman goes on to say that 2% growth is the reality we now face, for various reasons (like demography), unless there […]

A Krugman Kontradiction

Sure, he said “government official” probably to mean “employee in the Executive Branch” but c’mon. This notion that the U.S. Republic suddenly hit the rocks on November 2016 is crazy–especially coming from Krugman, who periodically reminds his readers that the GOP has been this awful all along, it’s not a Trump thing.

Potpourri

==> CONTEST! Get your video posted for free admission to the Contra Cruise. Details in the middle of this episode (which is also quite good). ==> I differ with the Pope on transubstantiation *and* climate economics. ==> This is a great Tom Woods interview of Saifedean Ammous. He is an economist with a very particular […]

Krugman Nails It On the Press and Argentina

I had toyed with writing this up, but I’m just too swamped with stuff this month. So a drive-by instead. First we have Krugman rolling his eyes at the financial press in 2012: And then a news item from last month: And incidentally, I don’t think this is just a Nelsonian moment of ridicule. The […]

Krugman Unwittingly Compliments Conservatives

I really think this is a case where Krugman’s argument blew up in his face. The Trump Administration came back to the idea of subsidizing nuclear and coal-fired power plants, and so Krugman naturally screamed hypocrisy. Yet the link Krugman gave to the news story showed why conservatives were being consistent on this; I spell […]

Jon Stewart vs. Paul Krugman

I had to dig this up for some people who hadn’t heard of it. Thought I would share (again) with you folks.

Murphy Magic

Some of this may be repeats, but I haven’t posted my stuff in a while and need to catch up… ==> Ep. 49 of the Lara-Murphy Show covers Chapter 2 of our new book, The Case for IBC. ==> Ep. 50 of the Lara-Murphy Show is a bonus episode, featuring my remarks at the Yale […]

Krugman Should Love Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

Seriously. An excerpt: Krugman should be a huge fan of this approach. After all, Krugman tells us that sure, the economy seems to be doing OK in the first year under Trump, but that “when the next big shock comes…we’ll need an effective, coherent response from officials beyond the world of central banking.” This is because—Krugman claims—we […]