Krugman wins Nobel

[we_are_toast]

Paul Krugman wins the Nobel in economics. Next Secretary of the treasury?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...mics-nobel/?hp

[grapejelly]

Re: Krugman wins Nobel

I have tried to read anything that he wrote that had sense to it and still haven't found it. His articles are a bunch of total blather. Ah well.

[GRG55]

Re: Krugman wins Nobel

I have tried to read anything that he wrote that had sense to it and still haven't found it. His articles are a bunch of total blather. Ah well.

Perfect qualifications to follow Paulson then?

[doom&gloom]

Re: Krugman wins Nobel

i hope not! Volcker is still alive, maybe we can still get him!

[D-Mack]

Re: Krugman wins Nobel

In a New York Times column published today before the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize in economics, Paul Krugman said the U.K.'s ``combination of clarity and decisiveness hasn't been matched by any Western government.''[

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...IYM&refer=home

You just have to know the right people

[c1ue]

Re: Krugman wins Nobel

Yep, following in hallowed footsteps:

1997
ROBERT C. MERTON and MYRON S. SCHOLES for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.

= LTCM

Beware any Nobel Prize in Economics winner outside of the Ivory Tower