Day 2 of the "Why Won't #Krugman Post On Bill Black?" Watch
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Submitted by lambert on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 8:53am
From Krugman's home page at the Times:
Just sayin.
Hey, I'd settle for a Pecora commission endorsement!
Or a Financial Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter for us, who can be against us? Well, we know that already, actually.
NOTE For the great Bill Black on accounting control fraud, see his interview with Bill Moyers. He's making the case Krugman need to debunk, refute, or accept (and then take the appropriate action).
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I may either be slow, or have
I may either be slow, or have missed something, but I don't understand this series of posts. What does Krugman have to with Bill Black's recent commentary? Is Krugman a bad guy now?
See the original post
to which I linked. You've been following the story, yes?
Nah, Krugman isn't a bad guy. I'm just trying to find the limits of his goodness, that's all.
The only thing I can think of is that
Krugman likes to lead rather than follow, or that he has been noodling around with some kind of a response to Black's charges and points and hasn't been able to come up with anything that doesn't somehow hurt the credibility of what he's already expressed.
I have no idea, really.
so now we have to call you
lambert-ichiban?
You may, but why?
n/t
Krugman's Pattern
consists of solid sometimes wonky economic policy analyses that alternate with acerbic criticism of right wing politics, particularly the Cheney Bush brand.
But he seems reluctant to personalize his criticism of Obama's economic team. He dissects the policy errors without mercy, but so far has held back from the kind of plain talk ...for example, using words such as incompetent and fraud ...that Steiglitz, Johnson, and Black, among others, have used.
I think it's Krugman's personality. Just as some professionals can critique another's work dispassionately, others personalize their criticism using tactics barely above the schoolyard level. Some people like to mix it up; others do not.
Probably what you are getting at, though, is the Villagers' reluctance to call a spade a spade....a politican never lies...she simply mispeaks... sort of thing. Krugman, at least in this respect, is behaving like one of the Villagers.
Keep it sticky.