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Krugman Touts His Influence as a NYT Columnist on Obama Policy Decisions
Krugman Touts His Influence as a NYT Columnist on Obama Policy Decisions
Nobel Prize-winning journalist admits he's enjoying opining more about the financial crisis than bashing Bush. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 12/8/2008 4:56:06 PM Send this page to a friend! (click here) If print is becoming journalism’s dying backwater, Paul Krugman isn’t ...
The Associated Press: Krugman: US auto industry will probably disappear
google.com — 13 hours ago STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. auto industry will likely disappear. "It will do so because of the geographical forces that me and my colleagues have discussed," the ... (more) The Associated Press: Krugman: US auto industry will ...
There she goes again.
edgeofthewest.wordpress.com — As Paul Krugman says, Not much point in going through Amity Shlaes’s latest: after having inadvertently revealed that she has no idea what Keynesian economics is, she’s back on the warpath against FDR, and me. Krugman deals with her wages argument ... (more) There she goes again.
Parachute Won't Deploy
talkingpointsmemo.com — The best indicator of the severity of our economic crisis is the fact that there now appears to be a broad, party-transcending consensus in favor of levels of stimulus spending that would have been treated as preposterous only a couple months ago by ... (more) Parachute Won't Deploy
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Krugman Admits He's Enjoying Opining More About the Financial Crisis Than Bashing Bush
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... In a Dec. 6 interview in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist told the ironically named Adam Smith, editor-in-chief of Nobelprize.org, that he found himself more effective in his role at the Times lately He said he was more influential in shaping policy as a journalist than he would be in a high-ranking position on the Obama economic team. ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — Susan Rice: "I can haz transition team at State, Hillary?" Hillary: "Grrrr." Hey, where's the transparency at Center for American Progress, since they're running Obama's transparent transition? Alaskan governor media's been bashing as a blatant spotlight-chaser since the election ended has been turning down high-profile TV appearances by the dozens. Back to the "she's scared of interviews" storyline. Biden: "I can haz power in Senate?" Reid: "No." Calling in "gay" to work. Only in San Francisco. Festivus display joining Nativity and atheist display in Washington State ...

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