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Peak Irony! Economist Paul Krugman Accuses Fossil Fuel Defenders of ‘Bad Economics’
NewsBusters ^ | 8/19/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 08/19/2021 10:42:38 AM PDT by JV3MRC

It is peak irony when New York Times economist Paul Krugman accuses fossil fuel defenders of “bad economics.”

The same Krugman who wrongly claimed in 2016 that former President Donald Trump’s election would lead to “'a global recession, with no end in sight,'” wrote a new op-ed headlined: “The Bad Economics of Fossil Fuel Defenders.” He peddled nonsense: “[C]laims that taking on climate change would be an economic disaster are as much at odds with the evidence as claims that the climate isn’t changing.” Too bad for Krugman that Transversal Consulting President Ellen Wald Ph.D. reportedly told Axios that President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has kept “‘American [oil] production down.”

Biden’s actions enabled an economic crisis by allowing the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to gain “more leverage over U.S. gas prices, especially Saudi Arabia.” Biden all but begged OPEC to produce more oil while U.S. production remains stagnant. A climate agenda that hamstrings the U.S. economy by subjecting it to foreign oil cartel manipulation was clearly lost on Krugman.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fossilfuels; idiot; nyt; paulkrugman

1 posted on 08/19/2021 10:42:38 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC
A Nobel prize for Krugman! Oh, he already has one?

Well, Walter Duranty got a Pulitzer prize for his reporting...

2 posted on 08/19/2021 10:45:12 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: JV3MRC

It amazes me that anyone still listens to anything Krugman has to say. The man has made a career out of being wrong.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 10:45:20 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: JV3MRC

Like Enron, Kruggie?


4 posted on 08/19/2021 10:50:28 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: JV3MRC

There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel


5 posted on 08/19/2021 10:56:30 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: JV3MRC

Bless his heart.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 10:58:47 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: JV3MRC

Can’t stand this guy (Krugman).


7 posted on 08/19/2021 10:59:46 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: 17th Miss Regt

IIRC, it was a Nobel prize in *economics!*


8 posted on 08/19/2021 11:00:43 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: JV3MRC

When you are a failure and out of touch, as Krugman is regarding economics, he literally can say anything, as it really does not matter. Nobel prize? Worth less than a tin trophy on his bedroom dresser. Krugman’s only value is as a reverse barometer, always do the opposite of what he says.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 11:06:29 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: JV3MRC

Fossil fuel is so bad, it built an international monster of an economic power. But don’t like that get in the way of your facts, commie cuck.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 11:10:02 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: JV3MRC
Honest question...

Has Krugman made an economic prediction EVER that proved correct?

11 posted on 08/19/2021 11:15:36 AM PDT by stevem
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To: JV3MRC
Jeebus.

Make this clowntool walk everywhere, cut off his electricity and natural gas.

12 posted on 08/19/2021 11:32:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JV3MRC

Always take the opposite view of Paul Krugman. You can’t go wrong.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 11:40:07 AM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Paul Krugman is to the science of economics what Typhoid Mary was to the science of epidemiology.
14 posted on 08/19/2021 11:44:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Richard Axtell

His economics are based on politics and which way the wind is blowing.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 11:51:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: joe fonebone

You are 100% correct. It’s a made up term designed by liberals to scare ignorant people into believing that at some point we’re going to run out of fuel and we won’t be able to drive cars, heat our homes and we’ll have to live the way the government tells us we have to live.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 9:10:14 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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