• 28 Sep 2010 at 11:45 AM

Paul Krugman Is Lonely

Sure, he has his cats, but they can only provide so much.

For more than a year, the bearded man consuming a shrimp salad at an Upper West Side cafe has been a prophet of doom, warning that the economy could slide into a “third depression” unless our leaders come to their senses and follow his advice. “I felt like a really lonely voice,” says Paul Krugman, an unknotted blue tie draped around his neck. “It’s been really frustrating.” But he keeps hammering away, demanding action in one New York Times column after another, hoping “to establish a counter-narrative against what everyone else is saying.”…In person, Krugman is several shades warmer, grousing about jet lag and delays in renovating the $1.7 million co-op he recently bought on Riverside Drive. “He’s very sweet,” says fellow Times columnist Gail Collins. “I’ve never heard him yell or get teed off at somebody.”

Paul Krugman, Incensed And Insistent About Our Economic Ills [WaPo]

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Comments (34)

  1. Posted by Shallow Thinker | September 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    Doesn’t cat feces cause dementia?

  2. Posted by Who would know? | September 28, 2010 at 4:23 PM

    OMG. Is there another asshat economist that thinks we can spend our way out of a financial shithole? Maybe Kruman and Krugman could team up to write an article!

  3. Posted by Mitch Cumstein | September 28, 2010 at 4:26 PM

    Some cats have all the fuck.

  4. Posted by big meach larry hoover | September 28, 2010 at 4:27 PM

    lets tax the cat 50%

  5. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    I wish.

  6. Posted by TedSheckler | September 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    Fluffy cats are the new flesh light are the new killing it.

  7. Posted by Dropdead | September 28, 2010 at 4:33 PM

    The mini-me moment.

  8. Posted by Lewis Winthorpe III | September 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM

    Paul Krugman: This Is Not a Friend

  9. Posted by Big Al | September 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM

    He is very sweet” translates into: “He is a nutcase left wing liberal like the rest of us idiots over here at the Post so I will make this article just one big fluff piece.”

  10. Posted by Milksteak | September 28, 2010 at 4:44 PM

    Paul Krugman here: local business columnist and cat enthusiast. Is your cat making too many predictions all the time? Is your cat constantly opining around, driving you CRAZY? Is your cat questioning your forecasts? Think there’s no answer? YOU’RE SO STUPID. There is! Kitten Kalculations. Finally, there is an elegant, pessimistic econometric forecasting tool, for cats.

  11. Posted by OptionsTrader | September 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM

    That’s not exactly Paul Krugman’s thesis Chiefo McChieferson. You should look into his New Trade Theory (he got a Nobel Memorial Prize for this). Actually what he is saying is beef up industries America is good at – Mainly technology, entertainment, and engineering

  12. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    “the Post”? really?

  13. Posted by Keyser Söze | September 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM

    Love the bearded professors tag, sounds like it needs a dirty urban dictionary definition

  14. Posted by trojan | September 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM

    yeah Brad DeLong, look him up Bess. actually a lot better with econometrics & the dismal science than Krugman who has to paint his broad pictures for hipsters at NYT

  15. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    So, that’s why Dr. Claw never turned around to face the camera.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    So, that’s why Dr. Claw never turned around to face the camera.

  17. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    So, that’s why Dr. Claw never turned around to face the camera.

  18. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    So, that’s why Dr. Claw never turned around to face the camera.

  19. Posted by Gozer | September 28, 2010 at 5:39 PM

    Krugman’s won a Nobel his international trade theory, not macro. When he opens his mouth about essentially anything else he is talking out of his ass – which is most of what he has been doing lately.

  20. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 5:39 PM

    we’re specifically looking for someone name Kruman to share the byline with Krugman but thank you for alerting me to this Brad DeLong you speak of.

  21. Posted by Maxine Waters | September 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM

    Craw! Not Craw! Craw!

  22. Posted by Mike Burry | September 28, 2010 at 6:20 PM

    Read the March New Yorker article on Krugman. His wife, the Economic Yoko, is left of Marx and has clearly scrambled what was left of his brains. “These days she focuses on making him less dry, less abstract, angrier… On the rare occasion when they disagree about something, she will be the one urging him to be more outraged or recalcitrant.”

  23. Posted by CMBS 4-Life | September 28, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    take from the rich, give to the poor, keep the money flowing…paddy’s bucks. Obvi.

    J-Bernstein

  24. Posted by trojan | September 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM

    “like” for the term Economic Yoko

  25. Posted by indridcold | September 28, 2010 at 6:43 PM

    no no, it’s the wives/gfs that own them.

  26. Posted by MantisTobogin | September 28, 2010 at 6:56 PM

    Being quite the expert in Bird Law, i’ve spent many a forknight studying this mans policies, and i have to say, he knows what he’s talking about.

  27. Posted by P-Krugz | September 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM

    “Levin, I’m part of two much-revered gay communities. I’m a bear. And I’m a daddy. I’m a daddy bear”

    -Paul Krugman

  28. Posted by Bhunter | September 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM

    I think he finally proved that Cat Fancier Association > MBA

  29. Posted by Flaunt | September 28, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    He looks like a ferret or an elephant vole. That’s cute.

  30. Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM

    Krugman hitched his wagon to the false promises of the early Obama administration and has been trying to talk himself out of it ever since. Ignoring the fact that Obama brought GS lemming Geithner into the mix, he dreams of a NWO based on an idealized version of the post-New Deal world. I think he bases his conception of American life based of “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

    http://proposition13.blogspot.com/2010/09/symantec-cardinal.html

  31. Posted by trojan | September 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM

    Fact: Geithner never worked at GS. Or on Wall St.
    We actually know such things on this site.

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