{"id":1110,"date":"2008-11-18T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2008-11-18T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T14:41:34","slug":"paul-krugman-corrects-george-will-about-the-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/11\/18\/paul-krugman-corrects-george-will-about-the-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Krugman Corrects George Will About The Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3yAyQV8gOjo&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3yAyQV8gOjo&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Finally someone was present on <em>This Week<\/em> to correct George Will&#8217;s misreading of history.\u00a0 One of the reasons I stopped watching <em>This Week<\/em> was the presence of Sam Donaldson to pretend he had knowledge of the economy when in fact he was a complete ignoramus.\u00a0 Cokie Roberts doesn&#8217;t add anything to the &#8220;mix&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If it hadn&#8217;t been for <a title=\"Huffington Post article about Krugman and Will\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/11\/17\/paul-krugman-schools-geor_n_144298.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a>, I never would have known about this episode of <em>This Week<\/em>. <a title=\"Comment on Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/11\/17\/paul-krugman-schools-geor_n_144298.html?show_comment_id=18083717#comment_18083717\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A comment on Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a> led me to Brad DeLong&#8217;s posts.<\/p>\n<p>Brad DeLong in his post,<strong> <a title=\"Brad DeLong Post\" href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2008\/11\/lessons-from-th.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lessons from the Great Depression Blogging<\/a><\/strong>, provides some nice backup for Krugman&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>In the above DeLong post he has a link to his original post, <a title=\"DeLong's Original Reaction to This Week\" href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2008\/11\/what-a-change-t.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What a Change! &#8220;The Week&#8221; Gives Airtime to an Expert<\/strong><\/a>, about the Krugman appearance on <em>This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone was present on This Week to correct George Will&#8217;s misreading of history.\u00a0 One of the reasons I stopped watching This Week was the presence of Sam Donaldson to pretend he had knowledge of the economy when in fact he was a complete ignoramus.\u00a0 Cokie Roberts doesn&#8217;t add anything to the &#8220;mix&#8221;. If it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}