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A Vision From Krugman Column Future

Last night I heard some chains rattling and was visited by a spooky economist who spake thusly: So a lot of the austerians are pointing with glee at the latest BLS figures, showing year/year CPI is up 9.4 percent. Does this mean the deficit hawks have been right all along? Was Dick Armey on the […]

Krugman’s Stately Contradiction

As an old Nickelodeon show would ask: “Kids, fair or unfair?” I accuse, you decide.

Parsing Krugman’s Joke

Usually I get Krugman’s jokes, but this one is unclear to me. I’ll just give the whole blog post: Mike Konczal has a post about Ron Paul’s first hearing on monetary policy, in which he points out that the lead witness is a big Lincoln-hater and defender of the Southern secession. And it’s true! I […]

Calling Sumner’s Bluff on Stock Prices and Inflation Expectations

Yesterday I put up a lengthy post arguing that Scott Sumner and Paul Krugman were inexplicably claiming vindication from data that, if anything, I would have thought they would prefer to sweep under the rug. Specifically, since 2008 the stock market’s movements have been much more strongly correlated with the spread between nominal and TIPS […]

Are Sumner and Krugman Incorrectly Claiming Victory?

A friend who is a very sharp economist mentioned to me that when he reads my critiques of Sumner, it is very challenging to discern my argument. So if he was having trouble following my posts, I pity the fool with a normal IQ. So for this post, I will start out at Square One. […]

First Sliced Bread, Now This

I know I know, you go to a cocktail party, and you tell people about the Murphy-Krugman debate, but you can’t do justice to all the funny videos and the serious article exchanges. Well, now you just take the person’s hand and write “KrugmanDebate.com” on it. You’re golden.

My Answer to Krugman

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Krugman Refutes Krugman Refuting the Austrians

I’m mostly posting this to make a note to myself… I am not certain he has me in mind, since I haven’t been following the comments on his earlier posts, but it is entirely possible I am the anonymous target today in Krugman’s post on “Barbarous Economics.” For your convenience, let me reproduce the steps […]