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From: j_d@invalid.org
On 15 Aug 2025, Dutch posted some
news:20250816.073112.5bd56eeb@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:
> On 15 Aug 2025, "Leroy N. Soetoro"
> posted some news:lnsB33C8FB82C2F26F089P2473@0.0.0.1:
>
>> https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/us-news/trump-rips-nobel-prize-winning-
>> economist-paul-krugman-as-deranged-bum-after-he-criticized-sweeping-
>> tariffs/
>>
>> President Trump blasted Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman as
>> a “deranged bum” after the ex-New York Times columnist was
>> critical of his administration’s tariff regime.
>>
>> “Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been predicting Doom and
>> Gloom ever since my great election success in 2016,” Trump raged in
>> a Truth Social post late Sunday.
>
> Krugman does it to all Republicans who make him look bad.
That doesn't take much.
>> Conversation
>>
>> TomC
>> 2 days ago
>>
>> Krugman like almost all economists is wrong much more than he is
>> right. Among all economists with blue chip academic credentials only
>> a handful forecast the great recession which was the biggest economic
>> event in 80 years. Just as many of these overpaid experts wrongly
>> warned during 2008- 2012 of a pending inflation crisis that never
>> happened. There's no reason to pay any attention to Krugman or most
>> of his peers.
>
> They didn't say much about Bill Clinton and Freddy / Fannie either.
"Economists study, analyze, and interpret economic data and trends to
understand and predict the behavior of economies."
There a lot of leeway for personal and political bias. Krugman being
the socialist Democrat hack he is, was a useful tool for the NYT.
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