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Oh, crap. It's ThaBigP of Spintopia fame. Everyone is about to get a lesson.

Actually, I mentioned that he was a disciple of Keynes when I first brought him up and it's consistently been part of the conversation. But, sure, homie, you keep thinking everyone else has the reading comprehension problem.

You completely misread those last two paragraphs you quoted, homie. You see, Krugman is a Keynesian. As such, he believes that most economic downturns can be reduced to a lack of aggregate demand, ie consumers aren't spending enough. Keynesians propose two primary remedies for this: 1) The...

Your example actually makes my point. Saying that "our new renegade refugees need to take a course on critical thinking etc." is not a prediction of any kind -- as you originally claimed Krugman's statements were. In fact, you're providing these hypothetical refugees a strategy--however...

A prediction would be, "I think the Fed will do such-and-such." That's not what Krugman said... "The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer...

Um, that's not even the same article. In your article, which is from 2005, Krugman is quoting McCulley. In my article, which is from 2002, Krugman is giving a suggestion with a passing reference to McCulley. Here's the article and the entire quote in context...

Another pertinent graph:

That's why I suggested looking at the gun laws in those other countries. Mexico, for instance, has some of the toughest gun laws on the books, and far more gun-related homicides and violent crime overall than the United States. Gun laws do not prevent violent crime. They don't even...

Check the gun laws of some of the countries ranked above us, especially Mexico. That should be a fun game. Other important facts: • The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number...

Actually, militaries are even more hampered in their own countries because there's greater concern about damaging infrastructure and they don't want to turn even more of their own citizens against them. The British ran into the latter problem repeatedly during the Revolutionary War, especially...

That's pretty much what we thought in Vietnam. In fact, we dropped more tonnage on Vietnam than we did during the entire second World War.

Did y'all know the Illuminati is planning to turn Jupiter into a star? True story, bro.

I agree. Good thinking, Jon. We'll invite Woodysgirl, too.

Brevity...is the key to wit.

Two things here: 1) WoodysGirl isn't racist. 2) Superpunk isn't the hetero white guilt-type. Guilt-types tend to be self-loathing. They hate themselves as much as anyone else. This isn't the case with SP. All of his animosity is directed outwards. He's more like the smarmy old church...

Hey, get outta here with all that reason and book learnin', you cunt.

So it's cunts versus yards and ass pirates. Awesome!

Sadly, the housing market is one of the most artificially manipulated markets in the entire economy. In 2002, while the economy was still recovering from the post-tech boom recession, economist and Leftist folk hero Paul Krugman -- the Keynesian-est Keynesian whoever Keynesian-ed -- wrote an...

You know what's funny? I always read the word cunt with an Irish accent.

He ate a guy named Dick? Whoa...