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CTyankee

(63,909 posts) Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:08 PM Apr 2013

"Knaves, Fools and Me"

The latest from the good professor. This one is very funny! The guy has a wicked sense of humor!

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

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"Knaves, Fools and Me" (Original Post) CTyankee Apr 2013 OP

Krugtron the invincible nails it! suffragette Apr 2013 #1

PK's reference to David Ricardo's "equivalences theory" sent me scurrying back to my CTyankee Apr 2013 #2

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

1. Krugtron the invincible nails it!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:16 PM

Apr 2013

"The key to understanding this is that the anti-Keynesian position is, in essence, political."

"The point is not that I have an uncanny ability to be right; it’s that the other guys have an intense desire to be wrong. And they’ve achieved their goal."

CTyankee

(63,909 posts)

2. PK's reference to David Ricardo's "equivalences theory" sent me scurrying back to my

Reply to suffragette (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:29 PM

Apr 2013

(brilliant) journal entry on him from a grad school econ course (designed for the Liberal Studies major). I don't know how I wrote the stuff I did, I wasn't smoking anything (but I probably should have). LOL! PK sure brought back some memories...

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