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Yet Another Attempt at the Government Debt and Future Generations Issue

Whoa, I almost spared all of you by forgetting to link to my latest article in the Freeman. I did my best to summarize what is wrong with the we-owe-it-to-ourselves “insight” on government debt. I’m pretty sure the example I spell out in the article is new. Anyway, here is the conclusion: If an imperialist […]

Krugman on the Fed and Plutocrats

Well, I am nipping at Krugman’s heels on this one, but I’m out of free articles for the month and I refuse to subscribe to the New York Times. I will show you guys what I’ve gotten so far, and maybe some of you can carry it over the finish line. In today’s blog post, […]

Krugman Throws 99% Under the Bus on Inflation?

Uh oh, I know some of you don’t like it when I say this, but I think we have another Krugman Kontradiction on our hands… In his recent op ed calling for a moderate increase in inflation, Krugman writes: [W]ould a rise in inflation to 3 percent or even 4 percent be a terrible thing? […]

More Krugman Mayhem Regarding the Hoover Record

I tell you, Dr. Paul Krugman is an absolute master of writing things that are incredibly misleading, but are technically not lies. The following actually took my breath away: Just to be clear, you can, if you choose, make moral arguments to the effect that it’s wrong to seize the rightful earnings of the wealthy […]

Paul Krugman Hits the Bar Before Answering Steve Keen

I am super busy with “day job” stuff so I can only do a hit-and-run: In the big blogosphere battle between Krugman and Steve Keen, the latter threw out some sweeping insults of New Keynesian economics. One of the things Keen said was: Firstly, there are similar underlying principles to the DSGE models that now […]

Krugman Gets Hit Hard by “Please” and “Thank You”

So here’s Paul Krugman describing his journalistic intrepidity and victimization by an evil corporation: Predictably, the letter from Corrections Corporation of America has arrived, demanding a correction on yesterday’s column. Strangely, though, it demands that I correct statements I didn’t make, just things CCA claims I implied. I don’t think that passes the test; maybe […]

Krugman Lets the Cat Out of the Bag on Socialized Healthcare

Like that guy in 1984 who liked Big Brother a little too much, I think the Party higher-ups may have to take care of Krugman for running his mouth a little too recklessly in his discussion of the Supreme Court and ObamaCare: Well, ObamaRomneycare is basically a somewhat klutzy way of simulating single-payer. Instead of […]

Atlas, Flubbed

Daniel Kuehn, March 15, 2012: My reaction to the story itself (I’ve only read the first 100 pages or so of the book, and that was many years ago) was the same as the suspicions about it that I shared on here a couple months back after seeing the trailer: Ayn Rand really reaches for […]