Paul Krugman Retires From The New York Times After 25 Years: 'Beacon of Clear, Moral and Inventive Analysis'

[joshcryer]

5. He was being provocative about the internet.

The article that is sourced from is literally titled "Why Most Economists' Predictions Are Wrong." It's often used to prove how "stupid" he is but he was predicting what people from 2098 would say about 1998. And honestly it will probably come to fruition as we will have something way bigger than the internet by then.

But yeah the Enron thing was really suspicious, since 1) he only attended 1 meeting that whole year and 2) it didn't even have anything to do with economics and 3) he got paid an enormous sum to basically have his name on some advisory board. The last part is one where he should have asked himself why they were paying him so much but he shrugged it off.