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DEFEAT: Paul Krugman Admits, ‘I Got Inflation Wrong’
NewsBusters ^ | 11/16/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 11/16/2021 10:14:55 AM PST by JV3MRC

New York Times economist Paul Krugman appears to have finally admitted defeat on the issue of inflation, adding another notch to his belt of being consistently wrong on economic issues.

In a shocking Tweet, Krugman conceded: “I got inflation wrong; I didn't see the current surge coming. But why? I didn't think the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much as [economist Larry Summers] et al predicted.”

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To: JV3MRC

Krugman is a student of Galbraith, who was also consistently wrong. And Galbraith was a big proponent of government assistance and socialism in general.


21 posted on 11/16/2021 10:57:52 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: JV3MRC

The malignant dwarf fails again.


22 posted on 11/16/2021 10:59:57 AM PST by Bayan
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To: AndyJackson

Hey Paul, when more money chases fewer goods the general price level does what?
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Thank you.

Most people here are missing out on the FEWER GOODS part of the equation. Oil and gas shortages are the most obvious examples. Empty shelves are empty for a reason.


23 posted on 11/16/2021 11:06:53 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: JV3MRC
megalomania:

- the enjoyment of power and a strong wish to have more of it
- a mental illness in which someone believes they are very important and powerful when they are not & more important and powerful than they really are

dunning-kruger effect:

- people who believe that they are very smart when they are not, and smarter than they really are

24 posted on 11/16/2021 11:07:27 AM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: JV3MRC

bkmk


25 posted on 11/16/2021 11:09:21 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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26 posted on 11/16/2021 11:20:57 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Fido969
Tell me when he gets something right.

The first thing he got right is that he admitted he was wrong!

27 posted on 11/16/2021 11:24:24 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: JV3MRC

Dunning–Kruger writ large


28 posted on 11/16/2021 11:25:05 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Navy Patriot

It wasn’t the stimulus, Paul, it was ending the lockdowns in red states! You still have it wrong!


29 posted on 11/16/2021 12:43:34 PM PST by allwrong57
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To: JV3MRC

Duh... We know that Paul.

You are just glorified economic Leftist that always gets it wrong. This is because your politics is your religion.


30 posted on 11/16/2021 1:29:54 PM PST by Enlightened1
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31 posted on 11/16/2021 2:37:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Reily
We have sewn a whole slew of people who are unimaginative uncreative purveyors of the regurgitated mantras of ‘higher education’. In fact, it is neither ‘higher’, or truly ‘education’. It's just a series of secret handshakes and passwords that identify you as a ‘member’ of a self-defined club of ‘the elite’.

If our futures were left to people like this, including the whole of the faculty of the Harvard and Yale law schools, we'd be in deep, deep trouble - as these are not very impressive or insightful people. Some are OK, some even exceptional, but most are just cookie cutter products of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of the self-convinced.

32 posted on 11/16/2021 3:17:07 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: JV3MRC

In a shocking Tweet, Krugman conceded: “I got inflation wrong; I didn’t see the current surge coming. But why? I didn’t think the fiscal stimulus early this year would boost demand as much as [economist Larry Summers] et al predicted.”
Whaaat?


33 posted on 11/16/2021 3:41:35 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: JV3MRC

The Village Idiot just had a piano fall on him.
When do we hear from the Berkeley Dwarf?


34 posted on 11/16/2021 4:59:29 PM PST by Zathras
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To: JV3MRC

Paul Krugman Admits, ‘I Got Inflation Wrong’

...along with EVERYTHING ELSE EVER.


35 posted on 11/16/2021 6:53:35 PM PST by jp3 (Make America TRUMP Again)
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To: neverevergiveup

But what about the empty space I have in my office Wal ?


36 posted on 11/16/2021 7:04:16 PM PST by Reily
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To: Fido969

He won the Nobel Prize in Liberal Orthodoxy. :)


37 posted on 11/16/2021 7:12:43 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Enlightened1
He completely missed the mark on Metcalfe's law. What's even worse is we have accelerated since 2005 - think cloud computing, crypto currency, digital ledgers, mobile devices/iphone.

Krugman is a PhD and a scholar? I have rarely seen someone miss this bad. Hell, he makes Al Gore look smart!

38 posted on 11/16/2021 7:32:41 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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