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4:38 pm - 01/13/2013

Paul Krugman chastises Jon Stewart for mocking the platinum coin

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Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman slammed Jon Stewart for his segment on the platinum coin, saying that “Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs.”

In an ABC News web exclusive, Krugman said: “It is a funny thing. But you want to be funny from a point of view of understanding what the issues are. There’s a reason we’ve gotten to this place.” He added: “Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs which have been talking about this. Lots of people think it’s a bad idea. Lots of people think it’s a good idea. But it’s not just, ‘Oh, those idiots.’
 
(OP's Note: Vid won't embed, here's a link)

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-web-extra-paul-krugman-18202593

Krugman was answering a question about a recent blog post where he called Jon Stewart “lazy” for mocking the coin idea. “In this case, however, it’s obvious that nobody at TDS spent even a few minutes researching the topic. It was just yuk-yuk-yuk they’re talking about a trillion-dollar con hahaha,” Krugman wrote. “Hey, if we want this kind of intellectual laziness, we can just tune in to Fox.”

In the segment in question, from Thursday, Stewart says: “I’m not an economist, but if we’re just going to make shit up, I’d say go big or go home. How about a $20 trillion coin



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k5memo 13th-Jan-2013 10:59 pm (UTC)
OT: i know its really funny how cats can be so visibly flighty when they are scared. but i really hate it when people do things to creep their cats out knowingly just to make a youtube video.

cats have feelings too!
milkradio 14th-Jan-2013 01:02 am (UTC)
This is true! I may laugh when my cat gets a fright and runs away and kind of skids on the hardwood floors when trying to turn a corner too fast because he's like a fucking cartoon, but I'm also thinking "omg relax cat :(" and I feel bad he got so scared. Then again, we kind of "rescued" our cat because he used to live in our backyard and was scrawny and homeless, so I think he gets a little edgy when he forgets he's safe with us (eg. sometimes he falls deeply asleep on my lap and has little cat dreams where his paws are twitching and he mews in his sleep and then he'll wake up suddenly and try to bite me out of fucking nowhere as if he suddenly forgot where he was).
k5memo 14th-Jan-2013 01:48 am (UTC)
Your cat sounds adorable! The thing is some people do it deliberately. There was this video that a guy kept trying to spook a cat and you can see that the cat's tail is all stiff, his hair is all standing up. I feel so sad for the cat!!
mylittlerants 15th-Jan-2013 08:00 pm (UTC)
lol
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