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Krugman vs. Murphy: The Animated Series

So Noah Smith has a pretty funny post, casting Krugman as Voltron versus me (and a bunch of others) as the monotonous grab-bag of robot monsters. On Facebook some people were offering cartoonish rejoinders. Joshua Ammons showed what a two face Krugman is: while Naomi Jeys dug up her caricature of me from a few […]

No Pandering From Krugman

At this point we need an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of how many blog posts Paul Krugman has written, regarding the lessons we are to draw from the Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco. But this one really amused me, when Krugman explained: Notice, however, that the problem with the original wasn’t that it failed to convey the […]

Potpourri

==> Not sure if I even mentioned it here, because the main event sold out…but anyway I will be at the “Anarchy in the NYC” event this Saturday. Afterward there is a karaoke party hosted by Tatiana Moroz, but you need a ticket to get in. (I am now calling myself a professional singer for […]

Krugman Gloating on Gold

This really makes no sense. As everybody knows, gold just had the biggest one-day drop in three decades. Here’s Krugman’s reaction: So, the slide in gold has turned into a rout. As Joe Weisenthal says, this should be seen as really good news, because it offers strong evidence that the goldbug/inflationista view of the world […]

Potpourri

==> Whether North Korean officials actually said this, or whether it is US propaganda to get Americans mad, either way it’s hilarious: They allegedly called the US mainland a “boiled pumpkin.” Who can drop bombs after such a funny insult? ==> Robert Higgs looks around at today’s libertarians, and he’s none too impressed. His op […]

A Note on Intellectual Honesty

[UPDATE: In hindsight, I wish I hadn’t cast this post as explicitly about “intellectual honesty,” because I don’t like it when DeLong, Krugman, et al. castigate their opponents as not being simply wrong, but being dishonest to boot. So, in retrospect I wish I had written this differently, to just explain why their use of […]

Mediating a Couple Arguing About Money

My friend and his wife are having a major disagreement over their household finances. He is self-employed (I don’t want to be more specific and tip some readers off as to his identity) and does one-off projects for clients. He relies on advertising and word of mouth to generate new leads. Anyway, he asked me […]

For Krugman, the Size of a Deficit Depends on the Point He’s Trying to Make

This is barely worth blogging about, since I know exactly what Krugman’s apologists will say, but what the heck? I love it when Landsburg criticizes Krugman, so this post is for his psychic enjoyment… In a March 28 post, Krugman wrote: “Back in the Reagan years two unprecedented things began happening to the US economy. […]