Tag Paul Krugman

On not paying attention

Paul Krugman admits that he underestimated the current rate of inflation when assessing the impact of the $1.9-billion “American Rescue Plan” early in 2021. On the other hand, Lawrence Summers warned in February 2021 that inflation might rise too high…

It’s getting too hot for clear thinking

President Trump has given a Fake News award to Professor Paul Krugman, which I find both unfair and inordinately amusing. It’s unfair because Krugman is not a news reporter but a columnist and sometime economist. Since winning the Nobel prize…

The unpatriotic majority

Come to think of it, Paul Krugman’s willingness to accuse America’s largest minority, the white Christians, of treason is not just an amplified, tables-turned version of the ancient charge leveled at the Jews. Prof. Krugman vaguely suggests that “the tribe” – the…

This tribe – or that?

Each person who thinks she loves America loves her own America so Paul Krugman’s question is not even rhetorically interesting. The tribe he is referring to – the “white Christians” of America – is still by far the largest “tribe” in…