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Paul Krugman Pushes Baseless Conspiracy Theory About Trump Administration Faking Economic Data
Breitbart ^ | 11/15/2024 | John Carney

Posted on 11/15/2024 10:52:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, has claimed without evidence that official economic statistics under the incoming Trump administration will be manipulated.

In a recent interview with the New Republic, Krugman said that under the incoming Trump administration, government economic data would be distorted to flatter the president’s policies.

“My guess is by sometime next year, we’re going to be having to look at proxies for what’s actually happening to the economy,” Krugman said, warning that official statistics on issues like the economy and crime could become “corrupted.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baseless; bidenflation; conspiracy; data; economic; faking; krugman; paukkrugman; projection; quackeconomist; theory; trump
Paul always goes full retard.
1 posted on 11/15/2024 10:52:06 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As if it had not been done for 4 years.


2 posted on 11/15/2024 10:55:10 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So Paul is trying to cover for the Biden admins horrible manipulation of data? The Biden admin lied.


3 posted on 11/15/2024 10:59:33 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR

Krugman is projecting. His whole life is based on lies.


4 posted on 11/15/2024 11:01:28 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
economic statistics under the incoming Trump administration will be manipulated

Why should we listen to a man like Krugman who will molest a child in 2025?

5 posted on 11/15/2024 11:02:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Paul “Mr Projection” Krugman is panicked that the Trump admin will issue honest figures, including corrections of Biden’s fantasy numbers.


6 posted on 11/15/2024 11:05:29 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Im going to have fun when I start using leftist terms like “Baseless” and “Without Evidence” when these clowns start spewing legitimate disinformation such as this.


7 posted on 11/15/2024 11:13:50 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fake economic data has been SOP for decades. In counting the number of unemployed the govt does NOT count those who have made a career of welfare!

If they did the unemployment rate would be 20% not 4%. Among blacks it would be 70%. So they lie to us.


8 posted on 11/15/2024 11:19:03 AM PST by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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Fake economic data has been SOP for decades.

Correct. It started in 1961 with Kennedy, and every administration of either party has played that game.

One could trust the numbers out of the Federal Reserve, but starting in 1992 that institution also began to cook its books.

9 posted on 11/15/2024 11:21:31 AM PST by Publius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The world’s best contrarian indicator. Whatever he says, the opposite is true.


10 posted on 11/15/2024 11:23:51 AM PST by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Krugman is a piece of meat with two eyes. A real idiot.


11 posted on 11/15/2024 11:24:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Democrats always, always accuse the right of what they themselves have done or are doing. It never fails.


12 posted on 11/15/2024 11:25:36 AM PST by CFW
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pot. Kettle. Black.


13 posted on 11/15/2024 11:30:44 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m still waiting for the stock market to recover after Krugman’s prediction of disaster after Trump’s first election. The DJIA was 18,251 then and it is down to 44,000 now.


14 posted on 11/15/2024 11:39:28 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/08/21/us-added-818000-fewer-jobs-than-previously-thought-from-march-2023-to-march-2024-government-says/


15 posted on 11/15/2024 11:42:00 AM PST by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lol no Paulie, because that what Clinton, Obama and Biden did is no reason to believe Trump will use your politically motivated garbage data approach.

They all seem to forget that Trump WAS President. He made a point of cleaning up the phony numbers his predecessors had been using,


16 posted on 11/15/2024 11:45:07 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

THAT IS RICH.

UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS HAVE BEEN STUPID FOR the last 4 years.

BIDEN TOOK CREDIT FOR”NEW JOBS” that really were Covid laid off workers finally getting back to work.


17 posted on 11/15/2024 12:29:23 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why give this human debris and prix like him any news space? He needs to be totally blacked out from the American consciousness. He’s a proven cypher. Forget about him.


18 posted on 11/15/2024 2:05:44 PM PST by rockwell torrey
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