Some of Krugman's more wild eyed pronouncements are pretty out there. And Krugman routinely tops the Lying in Ponds Partisan Index year after year. Granted he isn't as crass as Coulter, but looking him for reasonable thoughts on an issue just isn't reasonable.

It's not just her crassness it's her crass viciousness.

Actually to equate someone who is if anything too sweet (and mommy-state) to Coulter is bizarre.

For what it's worth though, I cross-read Krugman with Mankiw ... sometimes I think one is right and the other wrong ... but Krugman is never lazy about building a rational case.

He is not a crazed, crass, bomb-thrower, in the Coulter mold. Where is your head to even put that together?

Still gasoline prices are over 12 percent higher than where they were last year.

Steve, I remember specifically, about 5-7 yrs ago, filling up my 1972 vintage Chevy pickup at 1.88 per gallon and thinking, "This can't last. I gotta sell this thing." (It got 15 to the gallon, I did, and it didn't last) Today, I saw gas at $1.60 + per gallon... In all those intervening years, I have not seen gas so cheap.

WHAT price index are you looking at?

His political opinions and his economic arguments aren't really the same thing. The economic arguments stand or fall on their own evidential/mathematical merits.

Oh please. He uses his column and his reputation to talk about the economy. Has for years. He clearly mixes the two. And his academic output has been rather...thin, lately.

And a comparison to Coulter is pretty silly. Someone like Al Franken or Michael Moore are a good comparisons to Coulter. Krugman is more akin to a leftist Krauthammer.

Some of Krugman's more wild eyed pronouncements are pretty out there. And Krugman routinely tops the Lying in Ponds Partisan Index year after year. Granted he isn't as crass as Coulter, but looking him for reasonable thoughts on an issue just isn't reasonable.

His political opinions and his economic arguments aren't really the same thing. The economic arguments stand or fall on their own evidential/mathematical merits.

And a comparison to Coulter is pretty silly. Someone like Al Franken or Michael Moore are a good comparisons to Coulter. Krugman is more akin to a leftist Krauthammer.

Fast forward to this morning and they were warning that we could be on the brink of catastrophic Asian style deflation because of one month negative CPI. What gives?

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Steve, you might want to read Professor Nobel Laureate Paul 'He was wrong' Krugman's book 'Depression Economics'.

There fixed it for ya. Krugman hasn't been serious in about 5 years since we went from being an academic economist to the Left's version of Anne Coulter. So unless you are going to start reading Coulter don't hold your breath on me reading Krugman.

Drew

Yah.....when you're pumping air into your tire as fast as you can, using a more powerful pump than you've ever used before - and you're still losing pressure, things are bad.

Steve, you might want to read Professor Nobel Laureate Paul 'He was right and they all were wrong' Krugman's book 'Depression Economics'.

No near term interest rate increases? Indeed.

But what do we make of inflation down the road, especially when money velocity pick back up??