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The truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that that recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having to distribute the bulk of money

Only, like, Krugman in his NYT op-eds?

Who are they trying to fool?

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 05:31:22 PM EST
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Krugman isn't serious.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 05:44:04 PM EST
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Krugman's not only unserious but unhappy.

Paul Krugman Blog: What didn't the vice president know? (5 July 2009)

And when did he not know it?

Seriously, the economy isn't doing all that much worse than a number of people warned was probable. And the whole political economy thing was, sadly, predictable



A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 6th, 2009 at 04:01:00 AM EST
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My comment to Krugman (awaiting moderation)
Your problem, professor Krugman, is that you're not "serious" enough. And neither are Jamie Galbraith, Dean Baker, Brad de Long, Nassim Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, Joseph Stiglitz...

I mean, why does anyone need to listen to you unserious people when they can just listen to Goldman Sachs and its alumni?

When Biden says "we and everyone else misread the economy" he means "we and everyone else that matters". When he says "[t]he truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected", he means "no one that matters".

Get used to it - you may be the latest Bank of Sweden prize winner, a professor at Princeton and a columnist in the NYT, but you are "noone that matters".



A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 6th, 2009 at 04:09:56 AM EST
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I am amazed that Biden is taking the approach of the Post and WSJ ed. page neocons...

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Mon Jul 6th, 2009 at 06:40:33 AM EST
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Which only goes to show where he gets his advice, ie only from the WSJ-vetted usual source "Serious" people.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jul 6th, 2009 at 07:04:05 AM EST
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