When The Krugmanian Strikes

"And who are these lucky few? Mainly they’re executives of some kind, especially, although not only, in finance. You can argue about whether these people deserve to be paid so well, but one thing is clear: They didn’t get where they are simply by being prudent, clean and sober.”

Aside from the fact Kroooogman (aka Krugnuts and Krugman) can't possibly verify this (he's really taken to taking out of his asshole), it's time for him to revive Izvestia.

One could claim, I don't know, given his flatulent vapidness he's one of the undeserving rich? I mean, dude is living off a Nobel prize while unproductively spewing monkey screech at the paper of record now mostly used to wash car windows.

Of course, he's the 'right kind of rich.'

Basically, he's saying you can never attain grand things in life. Forget that fancy education. Only the lucky few get in.

It will be hard to keep my kid away from losers like this.

Comment:

"Could someone give me the chart or empirical set of equations that calculates exactly what each of us deserve? I keep hearing this word thrown around but never get a cited reference so that I can go check to see if I'm getting what I deserve."

Yeah!

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Krugman is one of those lefties I so loathe mostly because of his constant lamenting of being challenged.

From the Washington Free Beacon:

"As anyone who has been paying attention knows, the left isn’t terribly fond of the free press because the free press makes the narrative harder to control. That’s why you end up with “thought leaders” like Paul Krugman bemoaning the fact that his preferred narrative is “up for argument.”*
Krugman’s lament is benign in comparison to a pair of other complaints aired this weekend. 

Remember the story published by Grantland and written by Caleb Hannan that I highlighted? Hannan and his editors were faced with a tough choice: publish a story about someone who was caught lying about her past and then killed herself, or spike it.** They chose to run it. Outrage ensued. Not because their facts were wrong or there was anything untruthful in the piece. But because the person who was caught lying about her past committed suicide.
That there was some level of angst is unsurprising: In this, the era of perpetual outrage, everyone’s always angry about something. No, what was disconcerting is that there were people calling for the imprisonment of a journalist for committing the crime of reporting...."

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Someone I know read Krugman's book on ending the recession. He summarized the book in this one quote by Paul:

"I believe that income inequality played a role in the economic collapse. Unfortunately I can't prove this."

No wonder he asserts 'nothing is up for debate' in whatever he writes.