Paul Krugman on Why Republicans Worship 'Quacks and Charlatans'

[Panich52]

Paul Krugman on Why Republicans Worship 'Quacks and Charlatans'

alternet.org - Today's GOP is a kind of bizarro world where ambitious politicians are forced to pledge allegiance to experts who have gotten just about everything wrong. So writes Paul Krugman in his column Frida...

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[AngryAmish]

1. Krugman is an economist.

He is used to believing in magic.


Never listen to an economost. I know. I am one.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. My major in college, but...

I'd never call myself one.

"If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion." - George Bernard Shaw

(And now I have to insert Dorothy Parker's line-- "If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end to end I wouldn't be a bit surprised.&quot

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. ! I'd never heard that Parker line. :-)

[TreasonousBastard]

6. And now you have. The Round Table...

was a national treasure.

(So was Parker.)

[Doctor_J]

9. excellent line from Parker. anyone know the location of a pdf of her best?

I'll put it on my kindle next to the devil's dictionary.

[Katashi_itto]

2. Dems believe in Hillary too.

[Fred Sanders]

8. That makes no sense. You believe in real economics or you believe in quack economics. Who

thinks Clinton believes in quackery?

[Katashi_itto]

10. TPP.

[wyldwolf]

4. So far, the OP on a GOP weakness has turned into an attack on Hillary, Krugman and economists.

The Bubble that is DU

[Fred Sanders]

7. Krugman is more than a top economist in a field where anyone with a B.A. calls themselves one, he

is a visionary.

You can have Nobel winning Krugman or you can have Wingnut believing Laffer, and all the evolution and science denying quacks and charlatans, but I know who I chose to believe without thinking about it.

[Turbineguy]

11. Because to double down on

stupid is more important than just being stupid.