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Lord Keynes Beautifully Illustrates Why We Get Nowhere in the Stimulus Debate

My son has off from school today and I have agreed to watch old episodes of X-Men with him in 9 minutes… (Hey, I make sacrifices for the next generation.) Therefore I have to be brief, and can’t paint the picture from scratch, but will instead just dive right into the weeds… In a previous […]

Thoughts and Links on the Austerity Debate

[UPDATE below.] As usual, I have been saving links waiting to write a piece de resistance. Instead, I’ll give hors-d’ouevres…. ==> In this post Scott Sumner riffs on a recent Krugman post. Did you have any idea that Sweden ran a budget surplus of 2% of GDP in 2011? Me neither. Reading Krugman certainly did […]

Krugman Acquitted of One Count of Perjury, Brought Up on New Charges

OK I want to prove that I am a fair guy, so first let me say that Krugman in this Bloomberg video didn’t deny that the Fed caused the housing bubble. If you start playing the video around 19:35, it’s clear that the interviewer is asking about federal government programs like Fannie Mae and the […]

At This Point Paul Krugman Is Just Playing With Us About Housing

OK so let’s refresh everyone’s memory. Back in 2002, Paul Krugman infamously wrote in a NYT article: The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn’t a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings […]

Clarification on the Krugman Kampaign

Wow just when I’m sulking because Bob Wenzel is getting all the attention for his NY Fed talk, along comes a resurgence in interest in the Krugman Debate Challenge. Daniel Kuehn really impressed me with this post. I think he must have felt bad that Krugman fans were zinging me at the Reddit blog. Here’s […]

Note to Self: Bring Up These Posts When Krugman’s Fans (or the Man Himself) Explain the Refusal to Debate

If you are bored, go read Krugman’s fans’ complaints about the unethical libertarians, who had the audacity to tell their friends to vote for a question they wanted him to answer. I mean, it’s kind of like those dirty Ron Paul fans, who will vote in online polls and honestly report who their favorite candidate […]

Turning on the Bat Signal! Alert! Krugmaniacs Report to Battle Stations!

OK kids, Dr. Paul Krugman is doing a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” live chat, right now (4:45 Eastern time). If you are so inclined, please up-vote this question where I ask him about my debate challenge. The more people who up-vote it, the higher it gets bumped in the queue, and he has to stare […]

Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman

Geez, the guy beats me to getting on Leno and the Daily Show, and now this (it starts at 1:05): Thanks to a bunch of people emailing me / posting on my FB wall about this…