As we’ve noted before, to describe New York Times columnist Paul Krugman as “clueless” would be like characterizing The View co-host Joy Behar as “screechy.” Everyone knows that’s what they are, so the descriptor isn’t necessary.
But it’s worth emphasizing the point all the same considering that the same purported economist who is adored by the left but who has gotten so much wrong related to economic/cultural matters actually won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008.
It’s a (grossly overinflated) award that elevated him in the eyes of his social media/Ivory Tower sycophants but which only caused his critics to become even more skeptical of his declarations, hunches that bore out over the years as Krugman made one wrong prediction/claim after another.
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On Friday, New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury announced that Krugman was retiring from the Snoozepaper of Record at the end of the month after over two decades of service:
Beginnings are always difficult, as Paul said, and so are endings. I’m writing to let you know that he has decided to retire from The Times at the end of the year. He plans to write a final column soon — though he will forever be a friend of Opinion.
In her farewell piece on Krugman, Kingsbury quoted fellow opinion columnist Ezra Klein bizarrely describing the infamous self-styled expert as “A beacon of clear, moral and inventive analysis for decades now.”
“What a gift his work has been,” Klein also said, a point many of us can agree with but not for the reasons Klein appears to have in mind.
Krugman used to be a fixture on Twitter/X but quietly left it after the election and headed to leftist safe space Bluesky, where he’s been a frequent critic of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) because of course he is. In any event, he talked more about his retirement there, saying he was “in search of more freedom in terms of both style and content”:
And it’s official. I’m immensely grateful to the world’s greatest news organization for giving me a platform all these years, and greatly appreciate the moving sendoff 1/ www.nytco.com/press/paul-k…
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— Paul Krugman (@pkrugman.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Nonetheless, I decided to leave in search of more freedom in terms of both style and content. And that’s all I’m going to say for now. My “so long and thanks for all the fish” column will appear next week. As for future plans, watch this space 2/
— Paul Krugman (@pkrugman.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 9:57 AM
After the announcement was posted to Twitter/X, some folks couldn’t help but remind people of some of his worst predictions:
Happy retirement to a freezing cold takes hall of famer pic.twitter.com/KzxVsOdbSu
— Freezing Cold Finance Takes (@FreezingFinTake) December 6, 2024
Paul Krugman sending his two weeks notice like: pic.twitter.com/7c3MUBQHfT
— Guy (@GuyIsReborn) December 6, 2024
Florida Voice assistant news director Eric Daugherty pointed out that Krugman’s retirement comes on the heels of the news that CNN conservative political strategist Scott Jennings has accepted an invitation to join the L.A. Times editorial board.
“Nature is healing,” he added – something on which we can all wholeheartedly agree, all things considered.
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