jf wrote:
Never heard of Krauthammer before. Where did he get his PhD? What school does he teach at? When did he win a Nobel prize?
Wow. I tilt left, but you sound like a complete ass just blindly scoffing at Krauthammer like that. He's a smart man. Sometimes his columns just boil down to a bunch of turgidly bitter defeatism, but to suggest that he lacks education or prestige--and to sound all haughty about it--is really pretty stupid.
Krugman, former Enron advisor? Yeah, the guy is brilliant (ha ha).
Check out "The Best of the Web" as it often rips his columns. My current fav is Great Moments in Socialized Medicine where BOTW offers examples of failures in British healthcare and closes each one with the Krugman quote about how everything is great in Britain because the government runs the hospitals!
Bam Bam Bigelo wrote:
Who is the right counterpart to Paul Krugman?
...no answer?
That's because there is none.
The righter you go, the dumber you get.
Krugman's piece in today's NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html
BTW, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith are far superior to Krugman.
jf wrote:
Never heard of Krauthammer before. Where did he get his PhD? What school does he teach at? When did he win a Nobel prize?
Krauthammer has an MD and was a practicing psychiatrist. Far more impressive academic credentials than a PhD. I think he went to Harvard.
Off the Grid wrote:
jf wrote:So he is just another talking head journalist without any expertise or practical experience...(?)
and how is this different than PK? He has no experience in the real world at all (other than 1yr w/Reagan's CEA) ...an academic all his life...what the hell does he know about implementing policy?
At least Krauthhammer lives in DC and can have lunch w/ the people involved.
Actually Krugman was an advisor to Enron. That worked out well now didn't it?
Heck I forgot Thomas Sowell too.
luv2run wrote:
Bam Bam Bigelo wrote:Who is the right counterpart to Paul Krugman?
...no answer?
That's because there is none.
The righter you go, the dumber you get.
Krugman's piece in today's NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.htmlBTW, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith are far superior to Krugman.
Krugman's counterpart on the right is probably George Will. Like Krugman, Will is an academic turned columnist. For those wondering about his academic qualifications, Will has an MA and PHD from Princeton and has won a Pulitzer (a pretty overrated prize, in my opinion).
The main difference between Will and Krugman, however, is that Will is FAR less of a partisan than is Krugman.
wizardstaff wrote:
Krugman's counterpart on the right is probably George Will. Like Krugman, Will is an academic turned columnist. For those wondering about his academic qualifications, Will has an MA and PHD from Princeton and has won a Pulitzer (a pretty overrated prize, in my opinion).
The main difference between Will and Krugman, however, is that Will is FAR less of a partisan than is Krugman.
Agreed. The problem w/Krugman is that he often gets into name-calling with those he disagrees with. Not cool.
Sounds like some of his familiar followers on this board, no? A lot of these academics are demagogues, but Krugman is by far the worst of them all. Anybody who invests so much of their fundamental mantra in him is revealing their ignorance.
Thomas Sowell is one of the few economists writing anything honest and worthwhile today.
Sagarin wrote:
Sounds like some of his familiar followers on this board, no? A lot of these academics are demagogues, but Krugman is by far the worst of them all. Anybody who invests so much of their fundamental mantra in him is revealing their ignorance.
Please share whom you read, Sagarin Limbaugh?
I'm a Leftie but it amazes me when people come on here to start arguments and then claim to have never heard of someone as if that's some kind of badge of honor for him. I am not a Krauthammer fan but if you have any active interest in political commentary in this country it would be impossible not to know who he is.
But...he won the Irving Kristol Award? Is that something to brag about?
Irv had his smarts but his son Bill is as thickheaded a dolt as mouths off on the tube today. As a prognosticator, he's not even a .200 hitter.
Sagarin wrote:
Sounds like some of his familiar followers on this board, no? A lot of these academics are demagogues, but Krugman is by far the worst of them all. Anybody who invests so much of their fundamental mantra in him is revealing their ignorance.
As opposed to those who simply run off at the "mouth" without any factual/intellectual backing.
Thomas Sowell and Walt Williams are good reads.
RIP Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. Greats.
Tony Soprano wrote:
Please share whom you read, Sagarin Limbaugh?
Translation: I am deeply in love with Paul Krugman and cannot stand anyone to soil his good name.
That's half-right. He's one of the many I read.
I am curious, though, and would like to hear about who Letsrun's Limbaugh reads and appreciates.
It would cost you thousands of dollars to get access to the institutional research and "editorializing" that's actually worth a damn or you'd have to work for an organization that subscribes.
Carry on minions.
Mtn Dew wrote:
Translation: I am deeply in love with Paul Krugman and cannot stand anyone to soil his good name.
Amazing how deeply offended and irritated people are if you actually have the "nerve" to question the rantings of their preferred demagogue (demi-God?).
Krugman is another clueless Keynesian. Their solutions failed us during the Carter years and before. I don't know that either side has any bright ideas on how to resolve this problem but I'm reasonably certain tired government spending ideas to get us out of this problem haven't/won't work. Krugman is a blatant partisan along the lines of a Beck-Olberman and not worth the time to read.
They'll "work" for a time. Paul McCulley of Pimco just wrote an elegant piece about this, as did Charles Schwab's Chief Investment Strategist. But there will be a price to pay in the end, a severe one.