New York Socialite in 1972: “How could Nixon have won (re-election)? I don’t know one single person who voted for him!” Stupid and ignorant then and now.
Krugalgirl bone up on the math and get back to us.
When I was a child, I used to enjoy toying with retards and small animals.
After my mother slapped the piss out of me, I learned of the errors of my ways.
Good smackdown article.
No way should we write them off as being finished, as they did with conservatism between 2006-2008.
2010 has to be just round one and we need to come back again and again and again.
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Afraid of what?
Some young hack NYT (owned now by Murdoch) reporter will interview him and we will tell us in a near whisper how he saved the country from certain economic armageddon by his brilliant analysis of the times.
Of course he will be wearing his Nobel Prize around his neck constantly shining it up for all to see
When was the last time Krugman was right about anything.
“if the elections go as expected next week, here’s my advice: Be afraid. Be very afraid.?”......
Only if your a whack left liberal ‘cause you’re all going back in the box!...This episode of the Twilight Zone is over!!!
All the members on the Socialist NYT staff should be very afraid anyway, as the mother ship heads for oblivion. There is no credibility left in the state-run media.
Sometimes I wonder if a Nobel Prize in economics means anything. I mean, not many of us would argue about physics with a Nobel prize winning physicist. But who believes what any economist says who doesn’t agree with your own opinion? They get no respect, and maybe deserve none. But I know they have been studying the Great Depression for decades now, and there seems to be some consensus among them as to how to deal with that sort of situation, which many have claimed is similar to our recent financial crisis, which is also similar, they say, to Japan’s “lost decade” in the 80’s and 90’s, which is again, a very well studied economic situation.
So sometimes I wonder if Krugman and his fellow economists might be right, and perhaps we are going to make the same mistakes we made in the past all over again. But is this an area for economic experts to be setting policy, or should political considerations be foremost in our mind? Or perhaps I should ask, what economists can we trust in these matters, or are they all no more helpful than astrologists?
“They’ll refuse to do anything to boost the economy now, claiming to be worried about the deficit, while simultaneously increasing long-run deficits with irresponsible tax cuts”
I can barely remember, but there seems to me to be some subtle connection between tax cuts and boosting the economy, but I can’t quite remember. What was it, again?
By the way, wherefor the worry? Can’t Obama just veto tax cuts?