[lbo-talk] The Wageless, Profitable Recovery (NYT blogs)

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Jun 30 18:11:01 PDT 2011


On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:


> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DamnMess.html
>
> You definately should add it to your "read it here first" campaign. And
> you should broaden that correspondingly. It's not just Paulie. You're
> ahead of the whole pack.

Apropos you might enjoy Paulie's newest post, where he complains about the same thing vis-a-vis others and makes a nice wry point:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/wrong-to-be-right-2

June 30, 2011, 5:24 pm

Wrong To Be Right

Atrios is annoyed at David Wessel, and rightly so. I'd summarize

Wessel's column a bit differently: it's roughly "Some people thought

from the beginning that the stimulus should have been much bigger.

Hahaha! Also, it turns out that the stimulus was too small, so we need

some more."

This is actually a fairly familiar thing from my years as a pundit: the

surest way to get branded as not Serious is to figure things out too

soon.

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Michael



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