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Krugman Triples Down on His Smear of Friedman and Bernie
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.
Paul Krugman is plumbing new depths of moral obtuseness, arrogance, and intellectual dishonesty in what is now his third smear of the well-respected economist Gerald Friedman in two days. My prior column discussed Krugman’s two columns on February 17, 2016. Here is Krugman’s lead in his column dated February 19.
On Wednesday four former Democratic chairmen and chairwomen of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers — three who served under Barack Obama, one who served under Bill Clinton — released a stinging open letter to Bernie Sanders and Gerald Friedman, a University of Massachusetts professor who has been a major source of the Sanders campaign’s numbers. The economists called out the campaign for citing “extreme claims” by Mr. Friedman that “exceed even the most grandiose predictions by Republicans” and could “undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda.”
That’s harsh. But it’s harsh for a reason.
But why did they send a “harsh” and “stinging” letter in a manner calculated to try to destroy the career of an economist? If they found a grievous error in Friedman’s work, why didn’t they email him and point it out? Why did they personalize the attack and suggest that he must be doing it for Bernie? Why did they personalize their attack on Bernie, who did not commission Friedman’s study? Why has Krugman tripled-down on the personal attacks on Friedman and Bernie?
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Thanks to BrotherJohnF
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2016/02/22/krugman-triples-down-on-his-smear-of-friedman-and-bernie/
