{"id":11266,"date":"2012-06-07T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2012-06-07T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:12:26","slug":"paul-krugman-im-sick-of-being-cassandra-id-like-to-win-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/06\/07\/paul-krugman-im-sick-of-being-cassandra-id-like-to-win-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Guardian<\/em> has this wonderful article Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n

The Krugman quote from this article that I have chosen to highlight is,<\/p>\n

In an economy that produces $15tn worth of goods and services each year, $500m “is just not a big number”. Back in 2009, Krugman had warned: “By going with a half-baked stimulus, you’re going to discredit the idea of stimulus without saving the economy.” And that, he sighs, “is exactly what happened. Unfortunately it was one of those predictions that I wish I’d been wrong about. But it was dead on.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Discrediting the idea of stimulus without saving the economy” is exactly what I think Obama’s biggest sin has been.\u00a0 This is why I get so steamed with Obama sometimes.<\/p>\n

As great as this article is, the most valuable thing that may have come out of it is the comment that links to a YouTube video that I will blog about next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK Guardian has this wonderful article Paul Krugman: ‘I’m sick of being Cassandra. I’d like to win for once’ . The Krugman quote from this article that I have chosen to highlight is, In an economy that produces $15tn worth of goods and services each year, $500m “is just not a big number”. Back […]<\/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-11266","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\/11266","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=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11267,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}