We finally get to find out what noted economist Paul Krugman's solution to the country's economic problems is. Krugman is at his best when he sticks to the economics, and puts his lame, petty, partisan attacks aside. Krugman's analysis is interesting. Who knows? He may even be right. But his solution is questionable at best. […]
At the bottom of today's column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman acknowledges his error in depending on Salon's Jason Leopold and an e-mail of dubious origin that indicated that Army Secretary Thomas White was complicit in the accounting fraud at Enron. In a column on Sept. 17, I wrote about evidence that Thomas White, […]
It looks like Paul Krugman's "gotcha" of Army Secretary Thomas White may have been fabricated. (Thanks to Henry Hanks for the heads-up.) In an article published in the New York Times on Sept. 17, Krugman quoted from an e-mail allegedly sent by White, then an Enron executive, where he urged an underling to "Close a […]
I'm not going to defend Secretary of the Army Thomas White from Paul Krugman. I'm no fan of Enron, but I am going to continue to correct a couple of misleading statements that Krugman seems intent on perpetuating. [I]n February 2001 Enron presented an imposing facade, but insiders knew better: they were desperately struggling to […]
As part of the promotion for the Stanley Kubrick/Steven Spielberg movie A.I., Dreamworks created an ingenious online game that had Internet cybersleuths trying to solve a murder mystery. The puzzles were extremely complicated -- and unlikely to ever be solved by just one person. So, thousands of people banded together, using their expertise, knowledge, and […]
I used to read The New York Times editorial pages for laughs. Now I read them because, well, someone has to do it. The sad thing is, the Times' op-ed pages are the most monolithic of any American newspaper outside the New York Post or The Washington Times. In today's New York Times we are […]
MSNBC's Eric Alterman decides that he doesn't like Andrew Sullivan much -- probably because Sullivan's been on every liberal's favorite economist -- Paul Krugman -- like white on rice. (Full disclosure: A mention back in May by Sullivan got me my highest-traffic day -- but not $50,000.) Apparently the online magazine Salon has hired Sullivan […]
Sometimes I just have to shake my head after reading Paul Krugman columns. You've got to wonder exaclty what goes through this man's head. Our leaders and much of the media tell us that we're a nation at war. But that was a bad metaphor from the start, and looks worse as time goes by. […]
As Hoystory notices a disheveled Paul Krugman dusting himself off. Krugman's latest is just another rant about how Bush is trying to influence the American public by framing the debate -- specifically on "partial privatization" or "private accounts." The Bush team's Orwellian propensities have long been apparent to anyone following its pronouncements on economics. Even […]
I won't write too much about Krugman's latest New York Times column. Suffice it to say that Bush is evil (or stupid) and wants to make sure that poor people get poorer. Krugman's column claims or implies the following: 1. Bush knew the tax cut would put the budget into deficit. 2. The tax cut […]