badgenome said:
Agreed. It's like he's become a totally different person. Where he once was emphatic that Eurosclerosis was caused by cushy unemployment payments, he's now all, "Well, maybe under optimal conditions, generous unemployment benefits keep unemployment high... but fuck RepubliKKKans!!!!!!!!" Not one bit of blame goes to the Democrats for refusing to pay for the extension of unemployment benefits. Instead of compromising (you know, that thing Krugman always complains that Republicans won't do because they're hellbent on torpedoing the Obama presidency, and hey, whatever happened to that PAYGO thing on which Obama campaigned and signed into law about five months ago?), the Democrats went home for the holiday. What a fucking partisan hack he's become. |
My problem is that every time I see a piece on RealClear Politics that has ANYTHING to do with 'please give us more government spending', it is ALWAYS him. He is like a washing machine on a repeat cycle. I've been reading his pieces for 3 years now, and it seems like every one since the stimulus has always been about how great the stimulus is, how we need to spend more, and how Europe is retarded for its austerity.. Very little insight about how economics works, or discussions on various changes in our economy (which every other economist does, even a Naomi Klien or Peter Schiff).
Interestingly enough, some of our friends across the Atlantic even wrote a piece attacking Krugman, and defending their austerity. It was pretty funny that a Times writer would get hammered by another paper across the ocean.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
