The fix is in. Today Krugman stuck to economics

[Skink]

No mention of any political canidates.

[Romulox]

1. Not sure where people's memories are. Krugman came to prominence shilling for NAFTA. nt

[Skink]

2. He is a free trader.

Not sure if that is good or bad.

[Romulox]

3. Depends on which day you ask him. He pretended to be indifferent to TPP, to gain credibility

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for this election cycle. Not many were fooled.

[Hoyt]

8. Most importantly, he said people blame NAFTA for things caused by other factors.

And he's exactly right.

[Romulox]

10. Try to keep up. He now says he was wrong about NAFTA. Oops! nt

[Hoyt]

11. And he said people blame it for things caused by other factors. H

Heck, lots of production didn't go to China because of NAFTA for one thing.

[Armstead]

13. Not NAFTA...But a lot of other "free trade" policies

[Hoyt]

19. America First. I get it. Sounds like Archie Bunker.

[Armstead]

21. Nations first -- Greedy Transnational Corporations down the list

And the interests of average Amercan workers over the Jack Welch wannabes any fucking day.

And as fir other countries - Fair trade that helps them build healthy well rounded domestic economies instead of making them into Corpirate Colonies...hell ya

[Hoyt]

22. Workers are workers wherever they are. Some aren't happy with $50,000

a year. Some pray for a couple of dollars a day.

[Armstead]

23. Okay we'll just have to disagree

Personally I don't thimk its a goid idea to wreck the US economy snd simultaneoudly exploit workers elsewhere and create non- sustsinable colonial export sweatshop economies to allow a race to the bottom, just so Corporations can suck it all up.

But if you feel otherwise, be my guest

[Hoyt]

24. America First, and screw foreigners workers. I get where you are coming from.

[Armstead]

27. You do not get where I am coming from in the least

And your cheap and easy distortion does not merit any further motions of my fingers on my keyboard

[Unicorn]

25. Democracynow.org has a 1 hour daily show. It wins a lot of imporantant journalistic

awards every year.

It would be nice if more dems visited it, even once a week.

They take nafta apart and the TPP. You'd not be drinking the koolaide of the people for it if you actually saw it taken a part.

It left many countries in ruin.

[Ferd Berfel]

4. Just another Neocon

shilling for the Corporate elite

[Romulox]

5. Another old guy who doesn't know how the internet works. The internet remembers, Paul... nt

[silvershadow]

28. Isn't that the truth. nt

[pat_k]

6. The one on Robber Baron's?

In Seattle Times his most recent was the 19th. He sort of sounds like his "old self."

Paul Krugman
Robber baron recessions
Originally published April 19, 2016 at 5:01 pm

You see, profits are at near-record highs, thanks to a substantial decline in the percentage of GDP going to workers. ...

mainly reflect growing monopoly power. In that case many corporations would be in the position ...

... when investment is weak despite low interest rates, the Federal Reserve will too often find its efforts to fight recessions coming up short. So lack of competition can contribute to “secular stagnation” — that awkwardly named but serious condition in which an economy tends to be depressed much or even most of the time, feeling prosperous only when spending is boosted by unsustainable asset or credit bubbles. If that sounds to you like the story of the U.S. economy since the 1990s, join the club.

...we aren’t just living in a second Gilded Age, we’re also living in a second robber baron era

.

[jwirr]

15. I think that while he is a whole hearted free market enthusiast

I think he favors FDR's mixed economy. So the robber barons are a no no but unregulated trade with other nations is just fine.

However, I think he fails to see the difference between free trade for FDR which was real trade deals and these for profit deals for the rich we are seeing today that have nothing to do with workers at all.

[pat_k]

20. Food for thought

I've been a little mystified trying to reconcile what appear to be conflicting analyses from him.

[jwirr]

30. Yes, that is where I finally came up with this thought.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. That's because the primary is essentially over and Bernie lost

It'll keep kicking around for a while, but nobody's paying attention anymore. It's over.

[blm]

9. Why do you say 'fix' instead of math, Skink?

Seems like 'fix' is the word Luntz focus-grouped most recently. Trump sure is using it a lot since NY.

[Skink]

12. Do you know how long it takes to ignore?

Should be easier.

[blm]

14. I must be missing something. Why would people ignore the word "fix'

more than they would ignore the word 'math'?

[Skink]

16. You earned this.

[blm]

17. OK - but it was such a simple question.

.

[NCTraveler]

18. It's not the fix is in.

It's clarity of the current state of the primaries.

[silvershadow]

26. Krugman jumped the shark awhile back. So disappointing. nt

[snowy owl]

29. I haven't read him since. Totally turned off the man. Trust betrayed.