Posted on 12/09/2024 12:57:30 PM PST by JV3MRC
It finally happened. The New York Times’s ego-maniacal and perpetually wrong economics columnist is finally divorcing himself from his propaganda-mill column after nearly 25 years.
The Times Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury drafted the company eulogy for Krugman’s career there, and the over the top praise for his faulty economic crystal ball was nothing short of comical. “The authoritative voice. The lively writing. The direct style. The clear hand guiding readers through a thicket of policy, data and trade-offs,” read Kingsbury’s slobbering statement. “Paul is an important figure in the recent history of Times Opinion. Time and again, he took on the big fights, grappled with policy deeply and seriously, held the powerful to account and spoke hard truths.”
Cue the canned laughter.
To that end, MRC Business would like to pay tribute to Krugman’s media career by documenting a non-exhaustive list of some of the disgruntled columnist’s dumbest economic hot takes over the years. Enjoy!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Some career, never got anything correct and was revered by the leftist pinkos.
They’re dropping like flies. Alyison Camorrata quit CNN today as well.
Krugman was a bad joke...
Was? He still is, and always will be, a bad, sniveling, groveling, self-important, self-righteous joke.
He really did make a fool of himself. I think he suffered from the disease of thinking that being good at one thing made him good at everything.
He understands trade economics as well as anyone on earth, and was closer than some might expect to the Trumpian notion that the gains from free trade, while positive in aggregate, have not been distributed equitably throughout the economy. His solution was not tariffs, but redistribution, on the argument that tariffs protect corporate interests and don’t get distributed either.
But his impassioned screeds on every other subject, from calling Mitt Romney a Nazi, to predicting that the Gingrich-Clinton welfare reform would cause a depression were all just crazy. It’s hard to write two articles a week and not be wrong a lot, but there is a solution: don’t write two articles a week.
have your wife do it.
Sorry, I was referring to the time in grad school when I had to read some of his stuff.
BUY BEAR STEARNES
Good. Now, he’ll have time to take a remedial Economics 101 course
BTW you can not be dead and receive a Nobel Prize.
But you can be brain-dead. Witness Obama, Gore, Krugman, Arafat.
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