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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Delicious! ICYMI in October, Ralph Benko reviews Niall Ferguson's factual assault on Paul Krugman and considers it a huge public service, ending it with, "Play taps for Private Krugman." I agree! As for the terministic screens...



Been meaning to post this wonderful post full of ideas for weeks...
Delicious! ICYMI in October, Ralph Benko reviews Niall Ferguson's factual assault on Paul Krugman and considers it a huge public service, ending it with, "Play taps for Private Krugman." I agree! As for the terministic screens...
Forbes.com
OP/ED
Much Bigger Than The Shutdown: Niall Ferguson's Public Flogging Of Paul Krugman
By Ralph Benko
10/21/2013 @ 8:00AM 
While America was distracted by the theatrics of the government shutdown and threat of default something of much greater importance occurred.  
Niall Ferguson undertook a public flogging of Paul Krugman.
Krugman’s horns now forever will show under his dislodged faux halo. For this the world will prove a safer, and much more decent, place.
Read the rest at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/10/21/much-bigger-than-the-shutdown-niall-fergusons-public-flogging-of-paul-krugman/

Three months earlier, there was this:

Forbes.com
OP/ED 
If Paul Krugman Didn't Exist, Republicans Would Have To Invent Him
By Ralph Benko
7/22/2013 @ 8:00AM
Paul Krugman makes for an unparalleled intellectual foil. If he didn’t exist we’d have to invent him. Recently he has been vintage Krugman, slinging derp. 
“Derp” is new slang, or perhaps jargon, with which to ridicule opponents. It is making its wayamong the left wing hipsters, blogsters, and twitsters.
Read the rest of the essay at:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/07/22/if-paul-krugman-didnt-exist-republicans-would-have-to-invent-him/

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