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Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate

Congratulations, Emily Krugman! (or didn't he?)

Woah!!!

"Marry me!"

Arrested Development I miss you so.

>does anyone else share my fascination with this foxy creature?

he'd def make a foxy economist list - but what's the competition?

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_congratulates_critic_on_nobel_prize_1125.html

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/darling-i-love-you/

amazngly no-one has come up with this pun in the uk

naw jokes, but he is right.

Paul Krugman's cat is HUGE!

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2010/03/01/p233/100301_r19355_p233.jpg

too big to fail

is michael kinsley always this full of shit?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113220/paul-krugmans-misguided-moral-crusade-against-austerity#

@paulkrugman Jun 16
Not so much a whimper as a whine. I don't think Sanders will ever endorse Clinton, even against Donald Trump.

@DougHenwood
That Nobel-quality insight

I really don't understand the rage-boner Krugman had against Bernie

he and Larry Summers want to get jobs in Clinton administration

i don't think he has a concept of progressive populism. he likes keynesian policies but they have to be handed down from on high. people agitating for their own economic rights seems gross to him.

nah

Krugman no doubt sees Bernie as under-informed and basing his economic policies on a sketchy unsound foundation. He probably sees Bernie's supporters as being equally misguided and ill-informed on economics. So Bernie's campaign would look to him like arousing a rabble who would do more damage than good. This more than anything is because Paul Krugman in not a politician and is under-informed about movement politics, so he's basing his viewpoint on a sketchy unsound foundation.

yeah he doesn't understand how economic progressivism emerged through popular struggle rather than economists. sad!

No, he just believes that the proletarian revolutionary struggle should be led by an intellectual vanguard, necessary to dispel false individual consciousness from the working class.

krugman quit his prestigious university job so he could bum around nyc, no way he's in it for a clinton admin job.

plus he'd obviously be a terrible pick for one since it would create a political firestorm.

No, he just believes that the proletarian revolutionary struggle should be led by an intellectual vanguard, necessary to dispel false individual consciousness from the working class.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, July 27, 2016

yes I'm sure that's it

He is such a menshevik.

Krugman no doubt sees Bernie as under-informed and basing his economic policies on a sketchy unsound foundation. He probably sees Bernie's supporters as being equally misguided and ill-informed on economics. So Bernie's campaign would look to him like arousing a rabble who would do more damage than good.

OTM

This more than anything is because Paul Krugman in not a politician and is under-informed about movement politics, so he's basing his viewpoint on a sketchy unsound foundation.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3:55 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't get this. seems to me so far Krugman was vindicated about Bernie? he did endorse her eventually, but lost bitterly and his campaign is now at risk of losing them election (in anticipation of someone citing that 90% of Bernie people will vote for HRC stat see these tweets https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/757954632601796608). I think Krugman's politics in a vague sense are closer to Bernie than Hillary; he's more of a big gov social democrat than a neoliberal (though he was more neoliberal in the 90's), gave daps to syriza. and he gets politics as much as any of us...

krugman quit his prestigious university job so he could bum around nyc, no way he's in it for a clinton admin job.

plus he'd obviously be a terrible pick for one since it would create a political firestorm.

― iatee, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:24 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he may have been pissing off some other people at Princeton

re: political firestorm you could say the same of Summers, who is clearly gunning for a spot and has been playing a wolf-in-sheeps-clothing good progressive boy for like 4 years

apparently Krug was *really* expecting to get a CEA chair or something under Clinton #1 and his retreat into op-eds followed that

and idk, it just doesn't quite fit, he was easy on Corbyn, chummy with Varoufakis & co...

the one pattern his anti-Bernie stance fits is his hilariously excoriating hippie-punching of Robert Reich

yeah he doesn't understand how economic progressivism emerged through popular struggle rather than economists. sad!

― Treeship, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 4:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

There are many steps missing in any analysis that jumps from "as many as 30% of Sanders primary voters may not vote for Clinton" to "Sanders may cost Clinton the election."

i mean, it's clearly not helping. not to say his supporters would've been in thrall to Clinton but he got everyone all het up

that's an absurd way of viewing it. Why even have primaries if we can't afford the possibility that a potential nominee might face criticism?

The most logical conclusion to draw would be that people likely to support Jill Stein or Gary Johnson probably do not consider themselves democrats in the first place.

Logically assume whatever conclusion you want, Bernie obviously got people all riled up for nothing, there were some legit criticisms of his politics, and he lost. How is Krugman proven wrong?

It's cool that he ran and there's no way he could have foreseen that Trump would a) win b) be as popular as he now seems to be but in hindsight it all looks fucked up

Got people all riled up for nothing by trying to win a primary that he came pretty close to winning?

And as a result getting significant concessions in the Democratic platform?

Bernie obviously got people all riled up for nothing

Totally different read than I get from this primary.

Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me.

It’s an ugly world out there.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 8, 2020

yikes

so you're still marrying him?

thank god

The Times is now on the case.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 8, 2020

still want to marry this guy?

Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 11, 2020

the fuck

paul cringeman

i want to live in paul krugman’s alternate universe