{"id":4460,"date":"2010-11-03T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2010-11-03T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:46:59","slug":"krugmans-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/03\/krugmans-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"krugman&#8217;s mad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><strong>Paul Krugman<\/strong> is pissed off:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/harry-gave-em-hell\/\">Harry Gave &#8216;Em Hell<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/no-people-really-dont-care-about-the-deficit\/\">No, People Really Don&#8217;t Care About The Deficit<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/qe2-meh\/\">QE2: Meh<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/nobody-cares-about-process\/\">Nobody Cares About Process<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/the-strange-death-of-fiscal-policy\/\">The Strange Death of Fiscal Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/simply-put-we-must-um-well\/\">Simply Put, We Must, Um, Well<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/blame-the-whiny-center\/\">Blame The Whiny Center<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>He earned his right to groan. Krugman started his complaints that Obama was undershooting even before the Inauguration [<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/11\/clash-of-the-titans\/\">clash of the titans&#8230;<\/a><\/strong>] and hasn&#8217;t let up since. Now, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/simply-put-we-must-um-well\/\"><strong>Krugman thinks it&#8217;s too late<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">So here&rsquo;s my problem: even when people have a clear vision of the  problem, they lose their nerve when it comes to proposing solutions that  actually address that problem. It&rsquo;s this kind of diffidence that doomed  us to inadequate policies when Obama might have had the ability to get  stuff through; and now we&rsquo;re stuck, with little hope of recovery for  many years to come.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Sad as it seems, it looks like Krugman was right all along. I thought Krugman was hitting too hard. I was defending Obama as doing all that he could do given his opposition. But that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that Krugman was most likely correct. Had Obama jumped in the deep end with both feet, and succeeded, last night would&#8217;ve probably been a very different night. Sigh&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman is pissed off: Harry Gave &#8216;Em Hell No, People Really Don&#8217;t Care About The Deficit QE2: Meh Nobody Cares About Process The Strange Death of Fiscal Policy Simply Put, We Must, Um, Well Blame The Whiny Center He earned his right to groan. Krugman started his complaints that Obama was undershooting even before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}