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Paul Krugman

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street Vs. Tea Party Protests. Guess Who Wins?

    And the Tea Party loses! In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman writes an op-ed piece that states what we've all been thinking about Occupy Wall Street.

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2011

    Paul Krugman's 9/11 Blog Post is Baffling

    ​Nine years, 23 hours, and 55 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, economist Paul Krugman published a peculiar post to his New York Times blog. He titled it, "The Years of Shame," and it briskly bemoans the fact that 9/11 has become a w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2011

    On 9/11, Rightbloggers Denounce America's Mortal Enemies: Democrats and Paul Krugman

    On the 10th anniversary weekend of the September 11 attacks, every single living American blogger wrote a 9/11 memorial post. (Those who did not have been drummed out of the union.) Rightbloggers' 9/11 posts are always interesting, so we figured they'd be extra-good for 9/11 X. We were not disappo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    Called Anti-Science, Rightbloggers Reply That Science is a Liberal Plot

    With the ascension of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and other GOP candidates who don't cotton to this evolution or climate change stuff, people have begun to ask if Republicans and conservatives are actually becoming hostile to science. It doesn't help that one of those people is Repu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Huffington Post: Our Bloggers Like Doing It For Free

    ​On Thursday, the Newspaper Guild made a public plea to all unpaid writers for the Huffington Post to withdraw their services as a part of a strike against using unpaid labor in the wake of HuffPo's $315 million sale to AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Sarah Palin Getting the Silent Treatment For February

    ​By one man at least: Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used his column space at the end of last week as an opportunity for mild self-flagellation, admitting that since the 2008 election, he has written about Sarah Palin in 42 column and in "dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    In Tucson Shooting Fallout, Rightbloggers Find a New Public Enemy #1: Paul Krugman

    If you've quit paying attention to the Tucson shooting case, first of all, congratulations. Here is what you've missed: The nearly-assassinated Democratic Congresswoman is getting better, and the public discussion of her shooting is getting worse. There's just too much nonsense being circulated to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Mr. T, A-Team Member and Economist, Goes on Bloomberg TV to Discuss Gold Futures (Video)

    Paul Krugman, watch your ass. The above video comes to us via Bess Levin at Dealbreaker, who simply writes " This Is A Bloomberg TV Interview With Mr. T, Discussing His Investment In Gold" and tags the post "Activist Investors, David Einhorn, Gold, John Paulson, Mr. T, planting crops, reaping rewa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Libertarian Fire Department Lets House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay $75; Rightbloggers Applaud Free Market, Suffering

    People often say that the Republican Party has become much more conservative than it used to be. But they don't talk much about how conservatism itself has become more... hmm, how to put this politely -- let's say, detached from traditional American beliefs and standards of behavior. We're not talk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    The New York Post 'Snarks' Brooklyn Books, Sarah Silverman, and Paul Krugman

    ​Predictably nasty New York Post film critic Kyle Smith is now apparently telling his readers what else to do on the weekends. Not that he really should, but Smith obviously doesn't give a shit what Post readers are doing on the weekend, because he apparently wrote one entry just to be a cruel ... More >>

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    September 1, 2010

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  • Blogs

    August 8, 2010

    Paul Krugman Get a Death Threat, Treats New York Times Like Tumblr

    ​ At just before 9 a.m. this morning, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman took to his official Times blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, for a personal, two sentence post headlined, "I Love The Smell Of Death Threats In The Morning." It's humanizing! "Haven't gotten one of those in a wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Jersey Shore's Guido Effect on the New York Stock Exchange: The Results!

    ​This afternoon, we published our own theory on the potential financial voodoo that would ensue after the cast of Jersey Shore rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange: The Guido Effect. "Brilliant!" noted the New York Observer. Flavorwire wondered if it was "too late to invest" in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2010

    Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

    ​Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Did the New York Times Actually Ban the Word "Tweet"?

    ​Earlier today, Choire Sicha at The Awl reported that the New York Times had banned the word "Tweet" -- as in, what you do on Twitter when you use it -- from their newspaper in a memo sent out to editorial staffers. It got around the internet pretty quickly. And Yet: Times ArtsBeat blogger Dav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Bros Icing Bros: In Which the New York Times Gets 'Iced'

    ​Have you been made aware of the masochistic alcoholism pandemic known as Bros Icing Bros? It's a "game" that turns all of your friends into sadistic, binge-drinking, paranoid terrorists. The kind who will stop at nothing to peer pressure you into drinking The Worst Malt Liquor Beverage on Ear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Video: Paul Krugman's Rock Star Turn in "Get Him to the Greek"

    ​We noted last week that Nobel prize-winning "rock star" economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had a cameo in Get Him to the Greek, a movie starring hysterical Jewish fatty Jonah Hill, hysterical Limey sex addict Russell Brand, and New York's own hysterically omniscient rapper/pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Paul Krugman Taking This Whole "Rock Star" Thing a Little Too Far

    ​Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has recently enjoyed his time in the sun for being (A) a 2008 Nobel prize-winner, (B) correct about a bunch of things, (C) smacking down flashy upstart Andrew Ross Sorkin. All of which are beside those times Loudon Wainwr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Andrew Breitbart vs. Oh No They Didn't: A Media Spat with Epic Potential

    ​The Internet has been especially testy as of late! Of course, it always is, but just in the last month or so:

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    Andrew Ross Sorkin Officially Loses Krugman Battle, For Real This Time

    ​Since Runnin' Scared has so closely followed the ongoing duel between New York Times big money columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman, it's only appropriate that we bring you the final chapter, published in Saturday's paper. Because this all happened in the Times universe, it took a w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    NYT Public Editor Brings Down Wrath in Krugman vs. Sorkin Schooling, Basically Like "Foster Was Right."

    ​Very rarely will we pull out the YEAH WE TOLD ALL Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKAS card unless truly, truly necessary. But it's worth highlighting in this case, when the New York Times ombudsman, Public Editor Clark Hoyt, weighed in on the epic battle between NYT writers Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked

    Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and Treachery​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman

    "What should change? What lessons should we be learning? The first is, obviously, that finance is something to be carefully regulated. We went from a banking system that served our needs and did so while consuming about four percent of the gross domestic product, and paying average wages... to a fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    2,000 Tea Party Denounces Obama Spending, Cheers USA, Fox News

    On February 28, a Tea Party demonstration in New York's City Hall Park drew about 250 protesters who decried President Obama as a socialist, a communist, and the second coming of Hitler. This evening's Tea Party on the edge of the same park was much, much bigger -- stretching on the west sidewalk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Geithner Unveils Plan, Stocks Plummet

    This morning Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the new $2 trillion bank bailout plan, which as previously reported counts on private investors to buy up some "bad assets" of troubled banks in order to unclog their pipes and get them lending again. The New York Times helpfully puts a graph on its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Obama Gets Mad About Stimulus Delay

    This morning Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the new $2 trillion bank bailout plan, which as previously reported counts on private investors to buy up some "bad assets" of troubled banks in order to unclog their pipes and get them lending again. The New York Times helpfully puts a graph on its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

    The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Interview: Comedian Aziz Ansari

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    Financial Industry Rushes to Screw Us More Before Obama Gets In

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Pulp Fictions: I Live Here and Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 8, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: October 8 through 14

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Bush Admits He Was 'Wrong'

    But his speech doesn't account for the administration's heavy hand in spinning faulty intelligence

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2005

    Morning Report 8/7/05
    Vincent Loses His War of Words

    But his speech doesn't account for the administration's heavy hand in spinning faulty intelligence

  • News

    July 26, 2005

    Unfucking the Donkey

    Advice for weary, wandering Democrats

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2005

    Morning Report 3/9/05
    Debt Toll Mounts in U.S. Attack

    Advice for weary, wandering Democrats

  • News

    March 1, 2005

    The News at Dusk

    The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2004

    A Lack of National Debate

    The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

  • News

    August 24, 2004

    The Week in Review

    The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

  • News

    June 29, 2004

    The Big Ones

    Michael Moore and Spider-Man fight evil in two new summer blockbusters

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    Das Rongold

    Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Calling All Liberals: Progressives Gather to Outflank Bush

    Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Religious Conversion

    The Synagogue That Thomas Friedman Built

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Reason to Deceive

    WMD Lies Could Be the New Watergate

  • News

    April 1, 2003

    Bush's Voice of America

    Pro-War Media Conglomerate Tries to Take Over New York

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    Smear for Smear

    Enron Pits 'Times,' 'Salon' Against Freelancer

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Krugman Takes On ‘Seattle Man’

    The Times’s Crusade Against Ralph Nader

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