Krugman has predicted the 15 of the last 3 recessions. - a paraphrase from multiple critics of his tendancy to warn of doom. I suspect the wins have been greatest in playing short to all his gloomy prognostications. He also never hesitates to try to know more than he knows on popular topics.
I remember watching him on This Week With Georgie Stephanopoulos on ABC...that was when I watched ABC. He looked quite deranged as he spoke with his eyes darting around. He actually looked like he was afraid he was going to be shot.
You’d think a bright economist would know the difference between the reality of crime and official but often juiced statistics about crime. He’s like the Biden defenders last year: “Your experience in the grocery store is just anecdotal! The official statistics prove that inflation is low!”
Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, etc are all making a brief pit stop here at Substack on their slow slide into obscurity.
Recall they all lost their MSM jobs because nobody is willing to pay for what they are selling.
Now they fish for pennies here at Substack.
As others have noted, there seems to be some controversy about how many subscribers they have based on how long they have been here. I'm assuming their deal with Substack gives them inflated numbers to make it look like they are more popular than they are.
FYI: I have seen video from Glenn Beck, where the Clinton's are holding a private "rose garden party" at the White House during Bill's first term. On the platform with Bill and Hillary were the communists Robert Reich and........ (wait for it)..........Cloward and Pivens.
Thanks for the reminder. When I get bored I’ll swing by his comments section and tell him to go outside and shake his tiny fists at the clouds until he feels better.
Remember 10 days ago when Substack announced the "100 Million Dollar " investment for "infrastructure upgrades and technology improvements".
That was code for AI algorhythmn manipulation, bots, censorship, throttling of reach, etc.
You really didn't think this was going to remain a free speech platform, did you? It also will "augment" the reach of main stream voices - even if it's all BOTS.
Yes, it's funny that these clowns think they are actually saying something when they are wrong at least 80% of the time. Only morons listen to that drivel.
You are absolutely right. I only came to this platform to see what others had to say who were being censored. I never planned on writing anything more than sharing my actual experiences of what was happening in many of our lives. Never planned on doing anything more than a free page to share thoughts. I’m shocked to see people follow and subscribe, I realize a few are bots but whatever. I have nothing to sell. So I sit back and watch what others are peddling & why it matters. It’s easy to see those who are mentally disturbed.
“By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” - Paul Krugman in 1998
The guy is a complete dolt.
Funny he was the reason I first started to question the integrity of the NYT decades ago. Why would a reportedly serious newspaper hire such an unserious buffoon as their editorial “economist”? And then it all made sense as I learned more about the world, liberal ideology and the NYT.
You absolutely can! Just use liberal lockstep to your advantage. Here is how: Subscribe to Polico "Pro" - they give the talking points out that liberal news media and DNC media surrogates take out and say in unison every day. Ever wonder why they all use the same exact phrases at the same time? Now you know!
Repeat Politico's bullet points as if they are your own ideas and do it ASAP (extremely important). Being early and sounding like all the other big audience liberal voices and pols will equate you with being an "insider". Repeat, build follower base, repeat, get paid.
Then someday - let all your followers know what you have been doing and how much you have been making. You will blow up even more albeit with an whole new type of audience.
Oh forgot to add, this will cost you your self-esteem, dignity and most of your friends. But you asked how you could "get paid to write shit". And there it is!
Because you’re not a “shitty” person!! First you would have to be willing to get down in the muck and mire with the rest of the rats. That’s just what I think. LOL Stay classy!!
George W Bush broke America by “packing” the FISA court. As part of the 2001 Patriot Act, Bush raised FISA judges from 7 to 11, and further required that 3 of 11 must reside within 20 miles of Washington DC. This allowed this secretive court that regularly violates the 4th Amendment to do their deep state dirty work with super speed.
The FISA courts were then used to perpetuate the Russian hoax against Trump, which led to 2 impeachments and a completely divided country.
I wonder if George W thinks about what a piece of sh*t he is when he’s painting.
I check and read mostly all conservative and obviously right-leaning sites. But I know I do. I know I am reading biased news/opinions. Many on the opposite side do not know and don’t know they don’t know. We know they don’t know they don’t know. 😉
I go to breakfast with the Democratic (not Democrat?) men's club. Yesterday one guy spoke up and said, "There's not one thing that I know of that Trump has done that is positive." No one responded.
I said, "Ask your relatives."
He said, "We're not speaking."
They live in a bubble of self imposed emotional ignorance. Soft men make for hard times. They hate us because we won't let them commit suicide.
FUN FACT. Even though aspects of the BBB are terrible - I just saw a 22 minute presentation by the brilliant MARK MOSS ( has a channel on YouTube, and presence on Twitter).
Depending on you play it - if you are an entrepreneur (no matter how small) the Big Beautiful Bill will allow us - even in year 1 - to keep anywhere from $40,000-60,000 Extra in your pocket - due to immediate tax law changes and write offs ( ex. Immediate and total depreciation write-off).
So this is actually something concrete - that EVEN DEMOCRATS will benefit from.
For the next time you go that meeting. Everyone needs to get an accountants advice as to how to structure some moves - but, literally, this could be millions of $ in people's pockets.
The immediate write off of business expenses (equipment, etc.) was done after the Crash of '08 (for quite a few years) and so I started a home business (with just me as the employee). It was a good thing, but with Obama and Democrat's leftist policies and spending, the economy was still limping along when Trump got elected in 2016.
Krugman’s purpose in life is to prove that you don’t have to be smart, truthful, honorable, or open-minded, in order to be successful and considered an expert. He is an example for all the world to see, as to how luck, connections, right place, and right time, can set you up forever. . . How an award for something esoteric, can get you a systemic sinecure, for life. The NYT, for some reason, has a lot of people like him - occupying the space and time that could be allocated to an original thinker.
FYI, the “Coffee & Covid” Substack does a great job of reading the NYT, every day, so that you don’t have to.
I’m so tired of the lies - no it’s not really lies, it’s propaganda - at the NYT. It’s now more of an elaborate daily magazine than a newspaper. Who needs to be told daily, things that are either outright lies, or fairytales, disguised as true stories. No sense of shame @ NYT - just another CIA psyop.
Yes, but you, Yuri, have been known to come across as someone simply selling the "freedom-fighter" idea as a lucrative Substack theme. And banning anyone who questions you.
"400,000 people.... subscribe to Paul Krugman....... I should be so lucky to have that many."
Sasha, If popularity equated to quality, McDonalds would be a gourmet restaurant. Measuring common sense, Krugman's level doesn't register on your scale.
Unknown is how many of those are bots...and fake accounts created by Media Matters and chubby Neera T's Center for American Progress.
You can see the organization across many newspaper forums in the US....they operate from 7 EST until 4 PM....and never respond to other comments made about their post....because their job is to rile up people....treat 'em like mushrooms (fed shiite and kept in the dark)...and it's lucrative for David Brock and Neera Tanden....but we all pay the price.
I saw a video one time or maybe it was a news article or something that showed some Asian guy monitoring like 100+ phones. It is bots for sure. They just churn out crap.
Substacking can be a very lucrative business, especially for the BS artists out there. I have come across several of them in the Substack world. It's a con-artist's dream, if you happen to be a good con-artist.
You have far greater wisdom and instincts than Krugman, Sasha. That loser has had way too much influence as a tool of our failed 'elites' for too long.
I try, now and then, to read their crap, but I either get too angry or I get too depressed. There used to be a time where I could read anything and stay detached, but no longer. Their denial scares me. I don't see how it will end well. It makes me fear more and more that we are living in a repeat of the years just prior to Fort Sumter.
On top of all of this, if you are a Jew, you can add Jew-hate coming at you from the new socialist Left and the new “Right” topped with Islamist money influence.
There is some good writing on the Substack of Francisco Gil-White, former UPenn Anthropology Professor, about certain ME Arab groups being bedfellows of the Nazis during WWII. Totalitarians always chum around with other totalitarians.
Reading the comments on various left-leaning Substack authors is mind-blowing how ridiculous these people are. Straight up TDS loons. If I read a real crazy hate-filled comment, I immediately go to their page and block them.
What party tried to install a Truth Commission, what party still supports abortion up to the moment of birth, which party gravely blundered the Afghanistan withdrawal, which party tried to fire unvaccinated working Americans, which party left us with 21% cumulative inflation in just four years, which party intentionally ushered in 10M+ illegals and dumped thousands of illegals in unsuspecting small towns while simultaneously trying to eliminate voter ID.
Which party unilaterally and stupidly pledged support for Ukraine’s membership into NATO resulting in well over 1M casualties?
Which party lied to our faces about Biden’s cognitive health and laptop to get him elected and then colluded with the media to cover it all up to keep him in office until he imploded?
Which party tried to lock up Trump and when that failed removed from ballots?
And lest we forget, which party used intentionally falsified FISA documents to spy on the Trump campaign and then allowed rogue FBI managers to run an “insurance policy” to prevent him from serving? Which party purchased the Steele Dossier from foreign spy who had it prepared by Russians.
Which columnists were eager defenders and/or participants in the above overthrow of our democracy?
George W Bush stacked the FISA court in 2001, increasing judges from 7 to 11 and required that at least 3 lived within 20 miles of Washington DC. The FISA court was indeed hijacked by a Dem favoring Intel apparatus. But it was an R that ‘enabled’ this corruption. The Uniparty really sucks, and FISA should be dismantled.
You must be doing pretty well, Sasha. Three other Substack authors (Yuri, Barry, Freewill) so far have commented with a link to their Substack. And you’ve always been better than Krugman. Your worst day is only something he could aspire to in vain.
Yuri is someone whose opinion does not count much with me. He is neither the authentic Yuri Bezmenov (just stealing his name and reputation) nor is he in this for freedom-fighting. He is in it to make a good buck. Since freedom-fighter Substacks sell!
Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I was wracking my brain to figure out who would have subscribed me to Vanity Fair (the actual magazine), of all things. I figured out they were desperate for subscribers and bought my name off a list. What a waste of money. They clearly bought the wrong list.
Krugman has predicted the 15 of the last 3 recessions. - a paraphrase from multiple critics of his tendancy to warn of doom. I suspect the wins have been greatest in playing short to all his gloomy prognostications. He also never hesitates to try to know more than he knows on popular topics.
As economists go, he's no Milton Friedman.
He also predicted the END OF THE WORLD when Trump got elected the first time.
Krugman is LIVING proof liberals/progressives live in fantasy land AND have some form of insanity.
Who TH is Paul Krugman?
<I'm glad I never knew>
It's a Collective Psychosis.
Right, more of a Milton Berle than a Milton Friedman kind of economist. He's been a joke for a long time.
Of course, the Left needs their 'experts' in every academic area to be sure the public remains in the dark........
I remember watching him on This Week With Georgie Stephanopoulos on ABC...that was when I watched ABC. He looked quite deranged as he spoke with his eyes darting around. He actually looked like he was afraid he was going to be shot.
Please don't say that he has a large c*ck. That would be a waste.
You’d think a bright economist would know the difference between the reality of crime and official but often juiced statistics about crime. He’s like the Biden defenders last year: “Your experience in the grocery store is just anecdotal! The official statistics prove that inflation is low!”
Their cognitive abilities are shut down in certain aspects if they contradict the herd narrative.
So true!
Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, etc are all making a brief pit stop here at Substack on their slow slide into obscurity.
Recall they all lost their MSM jobs because nobody is willing to pay for what they are selling.
Now they fish for pennies here at Substack.
As others have noted, there seems to be some controversy about how many subscribers they have based on how long they have been here. I'm assuming their deal with Substack gives them inflated numbers to make it look like they are more popular than they are.
Robert Reich, I read his substack a few times. Good grief. Read the comments.
An annoying hack. I cannot stand his "lectures".
But he has cute cartoons…
Robert Reich - the Dr. Miguelito Loveless of Economics (WILD, Wild West reference)
FYI: I have seen video from Glenn Beck, where the Clinton's are holding a private "rose garden party" at the White House during Bill's first term. On the platform with Bill and Hillary were the communists Robert Reich and........ (wait for it)..........Cloward and Pivens.
Cloward and Pivens, the authors of the strategy to undo civilization by overwhelming the welfare state to bring a socialist utopia? Wow. 😳
Thanks for the reminder. When I get bored I’ll swing by his comments section and tell him to go outside and shake his tiny fists at the clouds until he feels better.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if several thousand paid subscribers were actually accounts made by Act Blue in order to push their narrative.
Bingo. If not actually Act Blue - the same lunatic fascist liberals BEHIND act blue - aka-DEEP STATE
Or money from USAID. Or some other NGO money laundering group.
Remember 10 days ago when Substack announced the "100 Million Dollar " investment for "infrastructure upgrades and technology improvements".
That was code for AI algorhythmn manipulation, bots, censorship, throttling of reach, etc.
You really didn't think this was going to remain a free speech platform, did you? It also will "augment" the reach of main stream voices - even if it's all BOTS.
Bummer dude.
Yes, it's funny that these clowns think they are actually saying something when they are wrong at least 80% of the time. Only morons listen to that drivel.
You are absolutely right. I only came to this platform to see what others had to say who were being censored. I never planned on writing anything more than sharing my actual experiences of what was happening in many of our lives. Never planned on doing anything more than a free page to share thoughts. I’m shocked to see people follow and subscribe, I realize a few are bots but whatever. I have nothing to sell. So I sit back and watch what others are peddling & why it matters. It’s easy to see those who are mentally disturbed.
“By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” - Paul Krugman in 1998
The guy is a complete dolt.
Funny he was the reason I first started to question the integrity of the NYT decades ago. Why would a reportedly serious newspaper hire such an unserious buffoon as their editorial “economist”? And then it all made sense as I learned more about the world, liberal ideology and the NYT.
LMAO
Why cant I get paid to write shit!?
You absolutely can! Just use liberal lockstep to your advantage. Here is how: Subscribe to Polico "Pro" - they give the talking points out that liberal news media and DNC media surrogates take out and say in unison every day. Ever wonder why they all use the same exact phrases at the same time? Now you know!
Repeat Politico's bullet points as if they are your own ideas and do it ASAP (extremely important). Being early and sounding like all the other big audience liberal voices and pols will equate you with being an "insider". Repeat, build follower base, repeat, get paid.
Then someday - let all your followers know what you have been doing and how much you have been making. You will blow up even more albeit with an whole new type of audience.
Oh forgot to add, this will cost you your self-esteem, dignity and most of your friends. But you asked how you could "get paid to write shit". And there it is!
LOL I knew about the lib talking points coming from the Left's source years ago. Further proof they are sheep/comrades to the cult rule of Democrats
Is this the same group that comes up with “the reason” for stock market moves everyday?
Exactly that is ridiculous.
BTW stocks traded mixed today due to uncertaintly regarding interest rate direction going into fed meeting later in the week.
LOL
Because you’re not a “shitty” person!! First you would have to be willing to get down in the muck and mire with the rest of the rats. That’s just what I think. LOL Stay classy!!
I am willing to try the muck, but never the mire.
I think. What is "mire" again?
Lots of people were broken by Trump. Krugman is such a lightweight, he was broken by Bush.
You win the internet today with that comment.
LOL well said
Which is saying a lot due to the immense intellectual capacity of Bubba Bush.
George W Bush broke America by “packing” the FISA court. As part of the 2001 Patriot Act, Bush raised FISA judges from 7 to 11, and further required that 3 of 11 must reside within 20 miles of Washington DC. This allowed this secretive court that regularly violates the 4th Amendment to do their deep state dirty work with super speed.
The FISA courts were then used to perpetuate the Russian hoax against Trump, which led to 2 impeachments and a completely divided country.
I wonder if George W thinks about what a piece of sh*t he is when he’s painting.
I check and read mostly all conservative and obviously right-leaning sites. But I know I do. I know I am reading biased news/opinions. Many on the opposite side do not know and don’t know they don’t know. We know they don’t know they don’t know. 😉
I go to breakfast with the Democratic (not Democrat?) men's club. Yesterday one guy spoke up and said, "There's not one thing that I know of that Trump has done that is positive." No one responded.
I said, "Ask your relatives."
He said, "We're not speaking."
They live in a bubble of self imposed emotional ignorance. Soft men make for hard times. They hate us because we won't let them commit suicide.
FUN FACT. Even though aspects of the BBB are terrible - I just saw a 22 minute presentation by the brilliant MARK MOSS ( has a channel on YouTube, and presence on Twitter).
Depending on you play it - if you are an entrepreneur (no matter how small) the Big Beautiful Bill will allow us - even in year 1 - to keep anywhere from $40,000-60,000 Extra in your pocket - due to immediate tax law changes and write offs ( ex. Immediate and total depreciation write-off).
So this is actually something concrete - that EVEN DEMOCRATS will benefit from.
For the next time you go that meeting. Everyone needs to get an accountants advice as to how to structure some moves - but, literally, this could be millions of $ in people's pockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSyIuLfWmKQ&t=28s
The immediate write off of business expenses (equipment, etc.) was done after the Crash of '08 (for quite a few years) and so I started a home business (with just me as the employee). It was a good thing, but with Obama and Democrat's leftist policies and spending, the economy was still limping along when Trump got elected in 2016.
Decades ago when SNL was actually funny, that would have made a great skit.
LOL
Trump Derangement Substack is booming. Krugman is one of dozens of authors who spew propaganda that is even worse than NYT. Their reader base is millions strong and may be astroturfed: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-derangement-substack-correspondents-dinner
"Trump Derangement Substack"
This is so true LOL
Krugman’s purpose in life is to prove that you don’t have to be smart, truthful, honorable, or open-minded, in order to be successful and considered an expert. He is an example for all the world to see, as to how luck, connections, right place, and right time, can set you up forever. . . How an award for something esoteric, can get you a systemic sinecure, for life. The NYT, for some reason, has a lot of people like him - occupying the space and time that could be allocated to an original thinker.
FYI, the “Coffee & Covid” Substack does a great job of reading the NYT, every day, so that you don’t have to.
I’m so tired of the lies - no it’s not really lies, it’s propaganda - at the NYT. It’s now more of an elaborate daily magazine than a newspaper. Who needs to be told daily, things that are either outright lies, or fairytales, disguised as true stories. No sense of shame @ NYT - just another CIA psyop.
Yes, but you, Yuri, have been known to come across as someone simply selling the "freedom-fighter" idea as a lucrative Substack theme. And banning anyone who questions you.
Hm-m-m?
I have to agree with you.
How do you “astroturf” Substack?
"400,000 people.... subscribe to Paul Krugman....... I should be so lucky to have that many."
Sasha, If popularity equated to quality, McDonalds would be a gourmet restaurant. Measuring common sense, Krugman's level doesn't register on your scale.
Unknown is how many of those are bots...and fake accounts created by Media Matters and chubby Neera T's Center for American Progress.
You can see the organization across many newspaper forums in the US....they operate from 7 EST until 4 PM....and never respond to other comments made about their post....because their job is to rile up people....treat 'em like mushrooms (fed shiite and kept in the dark)...and it's lucrative for David Brock and Neera Tanden....but we all pay the price.
I saw a video one time or maybe it was a news article or something that showed some Asian guy monitoring like 100+ phones. It is bots for sure. They just churn out crap.
That’s for sure!!!!
What a great country we live in.
A man who has never been right about anything now has 400,000 subscribers on Substack.
That. Just. Blows. Me. Away.
His subscribers do not concern themselves with truth. They are seeking agitation.
That's about the same number of people who followed Jimmy Swaggert.
Old Time Religion!
If you don't believe in anything, you'll fall for anything.
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything".
If the numbers are real it is quite scary.
Popularity has nothing to do with talent or insight.
Remember the success of Tom Green?
Again, just like all things democrat, those numbers are simply fake.
Substacking can be a very lucrative business, especially for the BS artists out there. I have come across several of them in the Substack world. It's a con-artist's dream, if you happen to be a good con-artist.
You have far greater wisdom and instincts than Krugman, Sasha. That loser has had way too much influence as a tool of our failed 'elites' for too long.
If you subscribe me to Krugman I'm going to assume you hate me
Krugman has been wrong about everything for years. It's astonishing he still has an audience, but that's the Left for you.
I try, now and then, to read their crap, but I either get too angry or I get too depressed. There used to be a time where I could read anything and stay detached, but no longer. Their denial scares me. I don't see how it will end well. It makes me fear more and more that we are living in a repeat of the years just prior to Fort Sumter.
On top of all of this, if you are a Jew, you can add Jew-hate coming at you from the new socialist Left and the new “Right” topped with Islamist money influence.
https://open.substack.com/pub/barrylederman/p/ebrief-from-life-7-how-about-some?r=o30r9&utm_medium=ios
There is some good writing on the Substack of Francisco Gil-White, former UPenn Anthropology Professor, about certain ME Arab groups being bedfellows of the Nazis during WWII. Totalitarians always chum around with other totalitarians.
I think the Times has been like that for YEARS. Awful.
Reading the comments on various left-leaning Substack authors is mind-blowing how ridiculous these people are. Straight up TDS loons. If I read a real crazy hate-filled comment, I immediately go to their page and block them.
What party tried to install a Truth Commission, what party still supports abortion up to the moment of birth, which party gravely blundered the Afghanistan withdrawal, which party tried to fire unvaccinated working Americans, which party left us with 21% cumulative inflation in just four years, which party intentionally ushered in 10M+ illegals and dumped thousands of illegals in unsuspecting small towns while simultaneously trying to eliminate voter ID.
Which party unilaterally and stupidly pledged support for Ukraine’s membership into NATO resulting in well over 1M casualties?
Which party lied to our faces about Biden’s cognitive health and laptop to get him elected and then colluded with the media to cover it all up to keep him in office until he imploded?
Which party tried to lock up Trump and when that failed removed from ballots?
And lest we forget, which party used intentionally falsified FISA documents to spy on the Trump campaign and then allowed rogue FBI managers to run an “insurance policy” to prevent him from serving? Which party purchased the Steele Dossier from foreign spy who had it prepared by Russians.
Which columnists were eager defenders and/or participants in the above overthrow of our democracy?
George W Bush stacked the FISA court in 2001, increasing judges from 7 to 11 and required that at least 3 lived within 20 miles of Washington DC. The FISA court was indeed hijacked by a Dem favoring Intel apparatus. But it was an R that ‘enabled’ this corruption. The Uniparty really sucks, and FISA should be dismantled.
So Kevin Clinesmith was a GWB creation?
GWB furthered the secrecy, speed and efficiency of future deep state actors use of FISA courts. The more secrets, the lesser our freedoms.
Clinesmith was a Dem operative. His FBI allies were condemned by the FISA court.
You must be doing pretty well, Sasha. Three other Substack authors (Yuri, Barry, Freewill) so far have commented with a link to their Substack. And you’ve always been better than Krugman. Your worst day is only something he could aspire to in vain.
Hope you're doing well these days, Libertarian.
Back atcha, A.! And yes, I am thank-you ❤️
Yuri is someone whose opinion does not count much with me. He is neither the authentic Yuri Bezmenov (just stealing his name and reputation) nor is he in this for freedom-fighting. He is in it to make a good buck. Since freedom-fighter Substacks sell!
Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I was wracking my brain to figure out who would have subscribed me to Vanity Fair (the actual magazine), of all things. I figured out they were desperate for subscribers and bought my name off a list. What a waste of money. They clearly bought the wrong list.