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Krugman Wants to Take $$ From Rich People, Just So They Won’t Have It

It’s not a regrettable necessity to take rich people’s money in order to help poor people. Nope, Krugman wants it to be a legitimate part of political discourse to take away their fortunes because we don’t want there to be such rich people.

Krugman’s ObamaCare Predictions Spiraling to Their Death

I know this is par for the course, but when I put all of these things together, the result impressed even me. Just look at how cagey Dr. Krugman has been on the issue of “death spirals.”

Calling Krugman’s Bluff on Trump and the Fate of the Planet

My latest at IER highlights one of the more absurd columns Krugman has ever written. He actually argued that if Hillary Clinton doesn’t win, then the planet is doomed. My conclusion: IER founder Rob Bradley had a great observation when he compared alarmist climate change rhetoric to a high-pressure sales tactic. The manipulative salesperson doesn’t […]

It’s Apparently Opposite Day at Krugman’s Blog

For our first ever live audience taping of a Contra Krugman episode on Saturday, Tom and I tackled this op ed from Krugman on inequality. Naturally we were skeptical of Krugman’s claims, particularly his glowing references to Denmark. But I had no idea just how duplicitous Krugman’s argument was. But Glen Raphael, a commenter on […]

A Falsifiable (Back) Test of the Krugman-Callahan Hypothesis

As if to help crystallize my attempts to get Daniel Kuehn to see why Krugman has been aggravating me on the issue of free-trade advocacy, Gene has a great post in which he suggests that it’s all due to the pay of Big Imports. Can we all agree that a good test would be my […]

Two Incidental Observations on Krugman’s 1990s Trade Essays

I am going to have a bunch of trade stuff coming out shortly, but here on the personal blog let me note two things from my recent (re?)-reading of some of Krugman’s 1990s stuff. (1) In this essay on trade negotiations I’m pretty sure in these throw-away remarks he’s talking about the tax interaction effect, […]

Correcting Krugman on Trade

Lately Krugman has been “correcting” right-wingers who justify trade liberalization on the grounds that it creates jobs. Yes that is a defensible opinion (because with flexible wages everybody can get a job, even under a complete blockade), but the way Krugman defends it is wacky. He talks about job growth in exporting industries offsetting job loss in […]

That Voodoo, That Krug Do

The punchline from my latest blog post at The Beacon: Are these really the most outrageous examples of “voodoo economics” to come out of a keyboard in the last few years? Does a projection of 5.3 percent average real GDP growth really deserve three question marks? After all, Krugman is the one who has argued the […]