Krugman Hot Takes and Ignorance

GURPS

INGSOC
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Paul Krugman Proves (Once Again) He’s Just a Shameless Shill for Biden


But Krugman’s shilling for Biden has never stopped. Krugman practically compares Biden to mythological King Midas—because everything he touches turns to gold.

Am I exaggerating? You tell me. In his latest opinion piece for the New York Times, Krugman boldly declares that “2021 was pretty amazing.”

After acknowledging that there “probably weren’t many Americans who started 2022 feeling celebratory,” Krugman enters the spin zone at Warp 10, claiming, “there’s a good chance that once time has passed and we’ve had a chance to regain perspective, we’ll consider 2021 to have been a very good year, at least in some ways.” Don’t laugh just yet. I haven’t even gotten to the good part yet. How was 2021 such an amazing year, according to Krugman? “In particular,” he says, “although nobody seemed to notice, it was a year of spectacular economic recovery — and one in which many dire warnings failed to come true.”

Okay, now you can laugh.

As one could expect, the White House, which has been desperately trying to overcome reality with a bogus narrative that Biden’s economic record is “the best in history” or something, went into high gear to promote this piece of shill article by Krugman. For example, one of the usual suspects, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, was all over it, blubbering “facts, facts, facts” in his retweet.
 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
:killingme


I'm certain Democrats have found an alternative to LSD.


It all turns to something but it ain't gold!

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stgislander

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PREMO Member
Krugman? Tranny is somewhere with its eyes rolled to the back of its head experiencing the big O.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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'Dystopian Myths': Paul Krugman Shames Americans for Believing BLM Riots Happened in 2020



Krugman even went as far as to say the destruction in New York City "never happened."

"Well, first of all, there’s the specific issue of the whole Black Lives Matter demonstrations, which a large part of the country, certainly a lot of the mail I get, people think that you know, lots of Manhattan was burned to the ground," Krugman told CNN's Brian Stelter on Sunday.

"They think that this was an enormously destructive thing, when in fact, yes, there was some arson and looting, but actually really not very much, and in a country, the size of the United States and for demonstrations that side, so they think that you know...Yes, and you’re in Manhattan, right? I mean, you know that there is not a burned-out shell. It just — this just never happened, but they’re told that it did," Krugman said.

Krugman further added that while violent crime is up since 2020, it is also wrong to assume New York City is a dangerous place because crime rates were worse during the 1970s and 1990s.

The 2020 riots, sparked by the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, resulted in over $2 billion in damage and over 20 deaths across the country. In New York City specifically, over 450 businesses were damaged to varying degrees by mid-June, according to the New York Post.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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CNN reports:

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Laureate and economist and a longtime columnist for the New York Times, said the economy is not in recession, but added that the distinction doesn’t even matter.
“Jobs are abundant, although maybe the job market is weakening. Inflation is high, though maybe inflation is coming down,” Krugman said. “What does it matter whether you use the R word or not?”
But in today’s divisive environment, the debate over whether or not to use the word recession by some members of the media has become “especially vitriolic,” Krugman said.

“I’ve never seen anything as bad as the determination of a lot of people to say it’s a recession,” Krugman said. “It’s above and beyond anything I’ve ever seen.”
Negative news stories often get the most attention, Krugman added, but when it comes to the economy, a plurality of voters appear to not be aware of its underlying strength.
“I think that what’s happening now is that there’s been a kind of a negativity bias in coverage,” Krugman said, pointing to a “media failing” when it comes to accurately covering the realities of what most Americans are experiencing in this economy.

“They want their Biden recession,” Krugman added.








 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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Patron
"All my rich pals are doing just fine....."

It's like Oprah advising us on how to manage stress, and Michelle Obama writing books about how to overcome adversity: "Step 1, be a powerful billionaire..."
 

SamSpade

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"How could Bush have won? Everyone I know voted for Kerry!" (some journalist whose name fails me).

I was watching a lecture by Robert Reich in the wee hours of this monring, and he mentioned making a trek across the country, from Dartmouth to Berkeley and he quipped that when he got there - he hadn't left. And he meant, everything ELSE was just the same. And he made the observation that people tend to live and work around people who think like they do - and as a general experiment, whenever he traverses the country, he looks for towns brimming with Starbucks. Because it's a generally reliable indicator of an area where people think and act - well, like he does. A leftie.
 

OccamsRazor

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"How could Bush have won? Everyone I know voted for Kerry!" (some journalist whose name fails me).

I was watching a lecture by Robert Reich in the wee hours of this monring, and he mentioned making a trek across the country, from Dartmouth to Berkeley and he quipped that when he got there - he hadn't left. And he meant, everything ELSE was just the same. And he made the observation that people tend to live and work around people who think like they do - and as a general experiment, whenever he traverses the country, he looks for towns brimming with Starbucks. Because it's a generally reliable indicator of an area where people think and act - well, like he does. A leftie.
Isn't this a battle cry on this very forum?
"Everyone I KNOW does this so... it must be like THIS!"
 

SamSpade

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Isn't this a battle cry on this very forum?
"Everyone I KNOW does this so... it must be like THIS!"

It's a fair analysis IF the point being made that it HAPPENS. Not necessarily accurate to describe the world.

It's sometimes accurate if it describes a situation entirely independent of geography or what social circles you travel in.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Why Zombie Reaganomics Still Rules the G.O.P.



If you squint hard at the economics section of the Commitment to America, however, you can see the faint outlines of a familiar set of ideas — zombie Reaganomics. Which raises a question: Why are deregulation, benefit cuts and tax breaks for the rich still the ruling ideology of a party that now claims to stand for the working class?

Before I get there, a couple of notes on what the economics portion of the commitment actually says.

First, it’s striking how many of the economic complaints are about things that are barely, if at all, affected by government policy, like the price of gas (which has come down a lot since its peak) and supply-chain disruptions (which have been diminishing).

Second, immediately after declaring that “we have a plan to fix the economy,” House Republicans say that they will “curb wasteful government spending.” As anyone who follows budget debates knows, that’s the ultimate weasel phrase. What spending are we talking about, specifically?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Remember Paul Krugman? He’s the New York Times’ Nobel Prize-winning economist who actually doesn’t know squat about economics. Nice work if you can get it. Really nice work, actually. Odds are that if you’re reading this, you’re making less money than Paul Krugman.

Anyway, it’s important to keep in mind that, no matter how much time passes, Krugman’s track record of being wrong remains fully intact. A recent New York Times headline warned that, according to the U.N., the world is running out of time to ensure that the planet doesn’t melt and just evaporate:





Not a terribly remarkable headline, to be clear. We’ve been hearing the same stuff for years now, years after the earth was supposed to have burnt to a crisp. But check out the subhed:



We already knew that fighting global warming was going to come with a huge price tag, so the subhed’s not remarkable, either, in that sense. But, as Keeper of the Receipts Drew Holden points out, it’s definitely worth spotlighting:








 
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