Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus -- no conservative she -- took on hack economist Paul Krugman last week over his repeated claims that the demographic train wreck facing Social Security does not exist. Marcus juxtaposed Krugman's concerns of years past with his dismissive and demogogic language of the present that anyone (Barack Obama particularly) saying […]
Paul Krugman thinks that he's Isaac Asimov's genius social scientist/psychohistorian Hari Seldon. At least he's got the "psycho" part right.
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a Paul Krugman fan. But I repeat myself. It turns out that the nutty, conspiracy-theorist University of Florida student that got tased at Sen. John Kerry's talk is a big Paul Krugman fan, and vice versa.
Newspapers have been trying for the better part of a decade to figure out how to leverage their Web sites into money makers. When I say money makers, I mean with the typical print profit margins of 20 to 30 percent or better. The only newspaper that has been successful at this is the Wall […]
Crossing Wall Street points out that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shouldn't be giving out financial advice. June 20, 2007 Paul Krugman Four Years Ago Today The big rise in the stock market is definitely telling us something. Bulls think it says the economy is about to take off. But I think it's a […]
I've complained for years that Social Security is nothing more than a government run Ponzi scheme. It depends on a demographic model that no longer exists -- one that has a dozen or so workers for each retiree. When a private individual or company does this sort of thing, they go to jail. When the […]
I haven't written much about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in quite awhile because his voice largely dropped out of the public debate when that paper sealed his writings behind their pay wall. But I want to give you a couple of quick Krugmania links. First, Jon Henke notes that Paul Krugman is predicting […]
Now that the New York Times has locked its nutty columnists in the sub-basement known as TimesSelect, the likes of Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman have become far less influential in our public debate. This is a good thing, since Krugman continues to just make stuff up. Today's column is a case in […]
A couple of notes on The New York Times' most inaccurate, unhinged columnist. First, his beardedness gave an interview to the Asia Times with the following gem: Tax increases: "We should be getting 28% of GDP [gross domestic product] in revenue. We are only collecting 17%." As Donald Luskin helpfully illustrates, federal tax receipts weren't […]