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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScarborough op-ed proves itself a KNOWING lie.
...Take this op-ed by Joe Scarborough and Jeffrey D. Sachs writing for the Washington Post which starts with the following paragraph:
Dick Cheney and Paul Krugman have declared from opposite sides of the ideological divide that deficits dont matter, but they simply have it wrong. Reasonable liberals and conservatives can disagree on what role the federal government should play yet still believe that government should resume paying its way.
As a commenter on Krugman's blog pointed out, if you click on Krugman's name in that paragraph, you'll end up at a post that starts as follows:
Right now, deficits dont matter a point borne out by all the evidence. But theres a school of thought the modern monetary theory people who say that deficits never matter, as long as you have your own currency.
I wish I could agree with that view and its not a fight I especially want, since the clear and present policy danger is from the deficit peacocks of the right. But for the record, its just not right.
I wish I could agree with that view and its not a fight I especially want, since the clear and present policy danger is from the deficit peacocks of the right. But for the record, its just not right.
In other words, to support the claim that Krugman said deficits don't matter, Scarborough and Sachs point to Krugman saying explicitly that people who say deficits don't matter are wrong. Krugman then spends pretty much the entire post arguing that deficits will matter a great deal once we're out of the liquidity trap...
http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2013/03/do-op-ed-writers-provide-their-own.html
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Scarborough op-ed proves itself a KNOWING lie. (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Mar 2013
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TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)1. k+r!
librechik
(30,676 posts)2. RWers started not doing their homework in kindergarden
And lying about it right after that.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. The real question isn't whether deficits matter or not ...
.... the real question is why anyone would pay any attention to Joe Scarborough?