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Raw Story: 'Grim place': Famed NY Times columnist Paul Krugman unleashes blame in bleak farewell column
Raw Story - ‘Grim place’: Famed NY Times columnist unleashes blame in bleak farewell column
Adam Nichols
December 10, 2024 7:05AM ET
Famed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman gave a bleak goodbye in his final piece for the paper Tuesday — but left with a glimmer of hope for the future.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist looked back on the 25 years since he penned his first opinion piece — and despaired at what the world has become.
“What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then and the extent to which that optimism has been replaced by anger and resentment,” he wrote as he retired from the Times.
“And I’m not just talking about members of the working class who feel betrayed by elites; some of the angriest, most resentful people in America right now — people who seem very likely to have a lot of influence with the incoming Trump administration — are billionaires who don’t feel sufficiently admired.”
In 1999, he wrote, there was a feeling of satisfaction and excitement for the future. But, he said, “in the 2000 election was that many Americans took peace and prosperity for granted, so they voted for the guy who seemed as if he’d be more fun to hang out with.”
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Adam Nichols
December 10, 2024 7:05AM ET
Famed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman gave a bleak goodbye in his final piece for the paper Tuesday — but left with a glimmer of hope for the future.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist looked back on the 25 years since he penned his first opinion piece — and despaired at what the world has become.
“What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then and the extent to which that optimism has been replaced by anger and resentment,” he wrote as he retired from the Times.
“And I’m not just talking about members of the working class who feel betrayed by elites; some of the angriest, most resentful people in America right now — people who seem very likely to have a lot of influence with the incoming Trump administration — are billionaires who don’t feel sufficiently admired.”
In 1999, he wrote, there was a feeling of satisfaction and excitement for the future. But, he said, “in the 2000 election was that many Americans took peace and prosperity for granted, so they voted for the guy who seemed as if he’d be more fun to hang out with.”
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DU thread to his last column: My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment. Paul Krugman (column is archived here)
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