Posted on 10/13/2008 8:02:38 AM PDT by staytrue
STOCKHOLM, Oct 13, 2008 (AFP) - US economist Paul Krugman, a fierce critic of George W. Bush's handling of the global financial crisis, on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize.
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While Obama was clearly cheated out of this, He still has a shot at the Peace, Physics and Medicine prizes.
Nobel Prize has become as prestiges as a prize from a box of cracker jacks
Hmmm???
Gore, Arafat, Carter and a whole bunch other socialists from other corners of the world!!!
Another thing that’s Bush’s fault ;-)
Maybe the Nobel people could start a new category:
“Nobel Prize for Fraud”
Here we go again.
There is no Nobel Prize in economics. The Swedish central bank awards what they call the "Nobel Memorial Prize" to an economist each year, and they do it at the same time the Nobel prizes are being given out. They named their prize Nobel Memorial to make it seem like it is an actual Nobel prize, but the Nobel prize committee has nothing to do with it.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/medal.html
It appears that the Nobel Foundation recognizes it, though.
Maybe I can get a Nobel Prize for farting ;-)
And Obama’s going to take the Literature prize too.
Hugo Chavez, just missed it!
Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Posted on 10/13/2008 4:38:28 AM PDT by Kozman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2104345/posts
normally I would applaud you for finding duplicate articles.
but today, FR was running very badly.
this article did not even show up until about 3 hours after I posted it and I did do a search.
at least I was having similar difficulty to this poster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104395/posts
But keep up your vigilance but be aware FR is having some difficulties.
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