[Peace-discuss] Mean Streets (2) (David Sirota on Populism, too)

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think he's often quite good -- e.g., today's column: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1&em

Obama's 100 Daze has had produced two principal things: the restoration of Wall 
Street wealth and dead people in AfPak.  Krugman describes the former.

--CGE

E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> One might wonder how much Krugman's Nobel Prize cost and where the money 
> to buy it came from but on the other hand part of it is sort of easy to 
> guess and we might not want to know the gory and  sordid  details of 
> every event.  That could be too much information.
> 
> Paul Krugman is certainly an easy guy to dislike, as everyone agrees.
>> Ben Bernanke's maiden Congressional testimony as chairman of the 
>> Federal Reserve was, everyone agrees, superb. He didn't put a foot 
>> wrong on monetary or fiscal policy.