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Questions for Keynesians and Market Monetarists

In my never-ending quest to achieve total magnanimity, I gently ask the following questions to make sure I understand how rival camps view the world. (1) To the Keynesians: I understand the point that “Ricardian Equivalence,” even if true, would not undermine the boost to current Aggregate Demand from a large government budget deficit. For […]

Krugman’s Climate Alarmism Is Juuuuust Right

My latest at IER. An excerpt: Again I point to the tightrope Krugman is walking here: He wants his readers to get on board, cheerleading these “green” power sources because they keep getting so efficient. Yet on the other hand, if the government doesn’t support them, everybody dies. How does that make any sense? If […]

Being a Liberal Means Never Having to Say You’re Forgiven

[UPDATE below.] Now that Tom Woods and I have a hugely successful podcast analyzing Paul Krugman’s columns, I have hardly been paying attention to his blog posts. So while I was killing time today waiting for the Texas Tech parking lot to clear out after their heartbreaking buzzer-beater loss to Baylor, I got caught up […]

Outsourcing: E. Harding Discovers Krugman Kontradiction on Reich That Makes You Cringe

Frequent Free Advice commentator (who is no slave to the demands of courtesy, I should say) E. Harding posted this link to his analysis of Krugman’s recent book review of Robert Reich. It is absolutely mind-blowing to see how this guy rolls. Look at how Krugman talks now about his thoughts of Reich’s earlier book […]

On Paris Climate Deal (and Alleged Fate of Humanity), Show Your Work, Dr. Krugman

My latest post at IER. C’mon tell me this isn’t a good line: Notice the absurdity, and we’re still in Krugman’s first two paragraphs. The existence of humanity itself is allegedly on the line—Krugman wonders if there will even be future historians—and yet this Paris meeting won’t solve the problem. Isn’t it weird that a […]

Krugman Rejects Fear-Based Rhetoric, Except for Climate Change

This is my post at IER that went along with the commentary on Episode 10 of Contra Krugman. For the best line, first I need to set up Krugman’s claim: Finally, terrorism is just one of many dangers in the world, and shouldn’t be allowed to divert our attention from other issues. Sorry, conservatives: when […]

Krugman on Obama National Security State: “He’s Normal”

For an episode of Contra Krugman I want to remind our listeners of Krugman’s assessment of the Obama presidency in Rolling Stone in late 2014. Here’s the one time I heard Krugman address Obama on foreign policy / civil liberties (he never stops talking about the war crimes of the George W. Bush years), and […]

Potpourri

==> I’m tied up on this business trip, so somebody please explain to Scott Sumner the difference between time deposits and demand deposits. ==> BTW I am tough but I am fair: I think I forgot to blog it at the time, but this Sumner post on Krugman from September was the best takedown I […]