It has always amazed me the competency gap between the liberal columnists and the conservative and moderate ones on the New York Times. The gap widened today as New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
For the last four years on this blog I’ve been quoting him profusely.
Congratulations!
(Here is an column he wrote three years ago about the housing bubble that was pilloried by the right wing echo chamber.)
It appears Paul Krugman is the smartest guy in the room.
I’m Paul F—ing Krugman.
[...] Paul Krugman and Obama never will see eye to eye on economics. Liberals are not the same, and Obama’s people comes from the Chicago school—the part that was the mess Clinton made, not other half of the Chicago school that made the mess than Bush and Reagan created. No matter which administration it was under, this school of thought has held the econo-political power for the last thirty years in this country. [...]
[...] Cole points out that there is a segment of the “intelligencia” out there who don’t know that a Ph.D. entitles you to the honorific “doctor.” “New York [...]