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  • Friday, May 6, 2011, 11:11 AM The U.S. political class is looking for trouble in all the wrong places, Paul Krugman says: fear of a debt crisis, of runaway inflation, of a disastrous plunge in the dollar. "The destructive effect of focusing on invisible monsters" is preventing us from dealing with "the real crisis: the millions of American men and women who can’t find work."
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  • You SA editors love this provocation, don't you?
    I'll pass today.
    6 May 2011, 11:15 AM Reply Like
  • Post Krugman article --> bell rings for Pavlov's dogs --> lots of page views --> advertising revenue.

    A winning formula for SA. Works nearly every day
    6 May 2011, 11:25 AM Reply Like
  • Krugman comments posted in the currents are spam. Their function is to generate revenue for the poster, not to inform or offer meaningful opportunity for discussion. Krugman never says anything new, nor can anyone else in response. No different from the endless parade of ED med mails.

    I will no longer post comments in Krugman discussions unless and until he says something new and different (fat chance of that), and I encourage others to join this boycott.
    6 May 2011, 11:34 AM Reply Like
  • OK yeah I'm in!
    6 May 2011, 11:35 AM Reply Like
  • Starting........NOW!
    6 May 2011, 11:36 AM Reply Like
  • Great idea Bearfund!!
    6 May 2011, 11:38 AM Reply Like
  • I'm in.
    6 May 2011, 11:46 AM Reply Like
  • You guys are a bunch of losers. Krugman is a man. You are bugs.
    6 May 2011, 11:48 AM Reply Like
  • I see why you stay in Paris...
    6 May 2011, 12:01 PM Reply Like
  • Krugmann asks, "Who sends out the memos telling people what to worry about, and why don’t I get them?" The answer is (a) the Koch brothers (see www.iwatchnews.org/201...), and (b) because you're smarter, harder to buy, and (mainly) less influencial than most politicians.
    My question is, why is it that Democrats go along with this agenda?
    6 May 2011, 11:55 AM Reply Like
  • "My question is, why is it that Democrats go along with this agenda? "

    Answer:
    Too much time.
    Too much OPM to pass around.
    Too much Kool-Aid
    6 May 2011, 12:23 PM Reply Like
  • Mad_Max_A_Million, you give Democrats too much credit. There is one and only one reason they go along with this agenda. Power. They learned a long time ago, when most were members of the Klan, that if you repeat the same message (that they want to hear) over and over (lying or not) the ignorant will believe the message and vote for you.
    6 May 2011, 02:29 PM Reply Like
  • They learned that from the "Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda" :

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

    -Joseph Goebbels
    6 May 2011, 02:55 PM Reply Like
  • he's an idiot but he is right

    the thing to beat is unemployment. there is no inflation. watch the headline number come back to core the next 6 months.

    E
    6 May 2011, 09:40 PM Reply Like
  • Economists are not realists.Putting their philosophies in place usually ends with unintended consequences.
    It would be better if Mr. Krugman offered some common sense solutions to problems instead of always politicizing them.
    The solution to jobs, that is good jobs, is to bring all those plants back from Mexico.
    7 May 2011, 12:05 PM Reply Like
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