April 06, 2004
#152: Silence is Golden Deafening...
KRUGMAN TRUTH SQUAD
Paul Krugman is AWOL. After making "jobs, jobs, jobs…" the center piece (or better yet, the "only" piece) of his economic attacks on the Bush administration, he fell silent today [LINK 1] and did not comment on the spectacular employment report last Friday, April 2, 2004. Neither did any of the other "jobless recovery" publicists. Brad Delong, for example, gave it two sentences on his web site [LINK2]. The silence is deafening.
[The Truth Squad is a group of economists who have long marveled at the writings of Paul Krugman. The Squad Reports are synopses of their discussions. ]
How's the song go? "Mister, We Could Use a Man Like Herbert Hoover Again..."
Posted by John Weidner at April 6, 2004 09:15 AM | TrackBack"Spectacular"? Only by comparison with the miserable record of the immediate past. It's actually below the rate of job growth projected by the Administration in November.
Posted by: Mark Kleiman at April 7, 2004 08:24 PM
