Archive for Krugman
“Have Events Vindicated Keynesian Models?”
This is a follow-up article to the one last week that concerned Jim Manzi’s debate with Karl Smith. In this new article, I walk through Paul Krugman’s citation of Mark Zandi’s forecasts. Krugman thought Zandi’s projections of the impact of the Obama stimulus–coupled with the ex-post record of actual GDP performance–was a great confirmation of […]
Read moreTwo Quick Notes On Krugman
* A while ago I thought I had found Krugman playing fast-and-loose with his readers, when he tried to make it look as if he had been the one advocating bankruptcy for overleveraged banks, as opposed to government bailouts. Specifically, Krugman was noting how Iceland was recovering much better than Ireland, and was insinuating that […]
Read moreKrugman Castles
I’m going to be pretty busy for all this week, so posting will be sparse. Meanwhile, check this out: Seeing the danger posed by my Knight, Krugman retreats to safety–for now. (See item #3.)
Read morePaul Krugman, Liquidationist
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am not going to accuse Krugman of all sorts of perfidy. I genuinely want one of his defenders to explain this recent post. Krugman is arguing that the cases of Ireland and Iceland show that the types of remedies he has been suggesting, work out much better than the […]
Read moreKrugman Still Rattled
We have further, smoking gun evidence that Krugman has been following my every move. The hints just keep leaking out. Submitted for your approval: Me on November 10: “A few people today have sent me this Slate article that links to one of my old Mises Daily articles. Just when I’m about to give up […]
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