Krugman Battles Austerians

Discussion in 'Economics' started by piezoe, Jun 23, 2015.

  1. piezoe

    piezoe

    Here from Bloomberg is a cute account of Krugman's criticism of the Swedish Central bank and What happened when they raised rates too quickly. Let that be a lesson well learned, it would seem. But scan to the right to see the outcome of Krugman's Battles with Jeffrey Sachs over, Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne's policy decisions and German Economist Georg Erber and Council on Foreign Relations Economist, Benn Steil. :D

    http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-krugman-battles-austerians/
     
    Last edited: Jun 23, 2015
  2. bloomberg news has way too much money.
     
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I tried to counter with a history of all the bad calls and errors Krugman has made, but the forum message limits me to 10,000 words and my mobile device only has 2gb more of transfer for the month.
     
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  4. fhl

    fhl

    I don't think it can be put any better than Daniel Greenfield put it:

    "Paul Krugman is to the Obama administration’s economic policy, what Lysenko was to Stalinist agriculture. Reading Krugman is an education in how socialist regimes rely on a court jester to give their unworkable and destructive policies the veneer of legitimacy."
     
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  5. loyek590

    loyek590

    we the people, the United States of America need to decide once and for all if we want our government run like a business, like Krugman advocates, in which case we need to be constantly taxing, investing and borrowing, or do we want it run more like FIFA, the NBA or MLB, where it is supposed to be just a governing body.
     
  6. fhl

    fhl

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  7. loyek590

    loyek590

    socialism starts making sense when business and government become one and the same
     
  8. fhl

    fhl

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  9. loyek590

    loyek590

    Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who said (and I paraphrase), "Eventually the government get's too powerful and you need a good old fashioned revolution to reset the table."?

    The left wants to protest, and they even want to fight. They just have the wrong enemy. When they realize the real enemy is the government, then they will unite with the right and we will finally have the revolution we are looking for.
     
  10. loyek590

    loyek590

    DEATH TO THE MODERATES! (that's just my feeble attempt to start a revolution.)
     
    #10     Jun 28, 2015