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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:28 AM
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Where's Krugman Today?
Maybe speaking w/ Clark?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=116937

I know he's more of a columnist. Wishful thinking on my part?
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:28 AM
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1. on vacation
according to their website.
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:31 AM
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3. He just took a vacation.
Now he's on another one? Oh well...
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:29 AM
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2. vacation
and the prick David Brooks filling in for him SUX!
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pearl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:35 AM
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4. Well known journalist resigns to work for Clark
I just heard this on one of the news channels, that will probably
be public by the end of the day. Any guesses?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:46 AM
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6. I posted that here a few minutes ago
heard it on C-Span
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:44 AM
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5. Saw Krugman on Charlie Rose last night.
Very disappointed in C.Rose, he wouldn't let Krugman finish answering questions and tried to put works in his mouth.
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soupkitchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:46 AM
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7. Charlie has a vested interest in believing the bullshit
So he doesn't want to hear anything close to the truth.
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displacedvermoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 11:41 AM
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11. Loved Krugman's line about the Argentine Junta's Approval Ratings
rising during the Falklands war as an indication that the war card can always be played. Friggin' Rose nearly fainted when he said that and pointed out that "Bush can't be compared to them" or some such line.

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JasonBerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 09:51 AM
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8. Let's Hope Krugman Stays at the NYT
He is needed at the New York Times....he can do much more good right where he's at.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 10:00 AM
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9. I don't think
Krugman becoming Secretary of the Treasury or the next Fed. Reserve Chairman is such a bad thing.
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Cheesehead Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 11:45 AM
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12. You have a point
Someone as bright as Krugman should make policy, not comment on it!
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 10:39 AM
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10. He'll probably have to do a book tour soon
because of his new book.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 11:51 AM
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13. Krugman is already appearing for his book tour... all over the tube and
he said that he's not really into politics in terms of giving advice to candidates. (last night on Charlie Rose)
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 11:53 AM
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14. After Sunday's 12 page article...
Edited on Tue Sep-16-03 11:55 AM by chiburb
I'd take a week off too!
(A MUST read by the way...)

Snip:

Right now, much of the public discussion of the Bush tax cuts focuses on their short-run impact. Critics say that the 2.7 million jobs lost since March 2001 prove that the administration's policies have failed, while the administration says that things would have been even worse without the tax cuts and that a solid recovery is just around the corner.

But this is the wrong debate. Even in the short run, the right question to ask isn't whether the tax cuts were better than nothing; they probably were. The right question is whether some other economic-stimulus plan could have achieved better results at a lower budget cost. And it is hard to deny that, on a jobs-per-dollar basis, the Bush tax cuts have been extremely ineffective. According to the Congressional Budget Office, half of this year's $400 billion budget deficit is due to Bush tax cuts. Now $200 billion is a lot of money; it is equivalent to the salaries of four million average workers. Even the administration doesn't claim its policies have created four million jobs. Surely some other policy -- aid to state and local governments, tax breaks for the poor and middle class rather than the rich, maybe even W.P.A.-style public works -- would have been more successful at getting the country back to work.

Link added: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazine/14TAXES.html?pagewanted=1

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