He's a 28 year-old kid with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from UCLA and MSNBC is parading him around as some sort of economic guru. Talk about grading on the curve, huh?
He's a prototypical pseudo-intellectual. The dude actually called for a second housing bubble (no, he didn't call it that but that's what it was) back in 2010 and we're supposed to listen to him why...?
Not sure formal education indicates anything with "talking heads'..they range from Rush, who even failed ballroom dancing as a college freshman to Maddow, Rhodes scholar, PhD. Any opinion regarding "talking heads" says more about the observer than the observed. Just my opinion, naturally.
I agree but wouldn't it also be nice if a person who was writing about economics actually knew something about it and not simply that which Mr. Krugman engrained in him?
I've often found that the great economists are sometimes unpredictable; a) Hayek was actually in favor of universal health-care, b) Friedman came out in favor a negative income tax, and c) Keynes was solidly opposed to FDR's National Recovery Act.
All part of the dumbing down of the culture.
ReplyDeleteI bet to the "Perquinn" crowd, this doesn't matter. The same guys who insist that Hannity and Limbaugh's degrees matter a whole lot.
ReplyDeleteHe's a prototypical pseudo-intellectual. The dude actually called for a second housing bubble (no, he didn't call it that but that's what it was) back in 2010 and we're supposed to listen to him why...?
ReplyDeleteNot sure formal education indicates anything with "talking heads'..they range from Rush, who
ReplyDeleteeven failed ballroom dancing as a
college freshman to Maddow, Rhodes
scholar, PhD. Any opinion regarding
"talking heads" says more about the
observer than the observed. Just my
opinion, naturally.
I agree but wouldn't it also be nice if a person who was writing about economics actually knew something about it and not simply that which Mr. Krugman engrained in him?
ReplyDeleteT'would, indeed. Which economist knows what, I'm still trying to
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I've often found that the great economists are sometimes unpredictable; a) Hayek was actually in favor of universal health-care, b) Friedman came out in favor a negative income tax, and c) Keynes was solidly opposed to FDR's National Recovery Act.
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