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(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Krugman's Failure to Speak Truth to Power about Austerity
Ever since the birth of the New Democrats, their adherents have embraced austerity. This act of mutual economic and political self-destruction has become so core to their identity that Hillary unhesitatingly made it one of her most important closing pitches.
Krugman's problem was that while he has come some distance from his support for austerity, his reflexes are still wrong because he does not understand sovereign money.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, February 22, 2016 Krugman Triples Down on His Smear of Friedman and Bernie
Paul Krugman is plumbing new depths of moral obtuseness, arrogance, and intellectual dishonesty in what is now his third smear of the well-respected economist Gerald Friedman in two days. My prior column discussed Krugman's two columns on February 17, 2016.