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Your appeal to authority is a logic fault. Well known.

Don't click on the link, you might learn something!

 

Recognize wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

 

You are literally excusing your ignorance.

Literally.

Deny the links are credible so you won't have to learn something!

 

You constantly appeal to authority. Your infatuation with Nobel Prize winners is exactly an appeal to authority.

Similarly, your denial of "credibility" to Fox News or anyone else is.

I'll give you a clue.

If Nobel Prize winner Krugman says it is 200 degrees F everywhere in NYC today, his prize doesn't make him to be telling the truth.

If Fox News says it was 37 degrees F in NYC today, it's the truth. No matter what you think of Fox News.

 

You denied Krugman (Nobel Prize) and NYTimes (Pulitzer Prizes) as not credible already.

Do you listen to fools like Krugman who are wrong most of the time?

That speaks volumes to the value of the Nobel Prize.

 

You may want to find out what Krugman won his Nobel for. Or maybe you don't.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngo...l-krugman-rejected-by-his-peers/#30a5c1bf4eb7

Voodoo Economics: Paul Krugman Rejected By His Peers

Paul Krugman has become an embarrassment to the economics profession. Despite his Nobel Prize and despite his previous high regard in the profession, his twice-a-week editorials in The New York Times are causing even progressive economists to treat him as somewhat of a kook.

Since 2011, the United States has followed what Krugman correctly calls a policy of “austerity.” For example, the federal budget deficit has declined from 8.4% of GDP in 2011 to a predicted 2.9% of GDP for all of 2014. All along the way Paul Krugman protested that such policies would prolong the recession and even push us into a “low-grade depression.”

In fact the opposite occurred. As Jeffrey Sachs wrote the other day:

… rather than a new recession, or an ongoing depression, the US unemployment rate has fallen from 8.6% in November 2011 to 5.8% in November 2014. Real economic growth in 2011 stood at 1.6%, and the IMF expects it to be 2.2% for 2014 as a whole… [It is likely] that aggregate growth for all of 2015 will be above 3%.​

Sachs, who is every bit as left wing as Krugman, writes:

Not one of [Krugman’s] New York Times commentaries in the first half of 2013, when “austerian” deficit cutting was taking effect, forecast a major reduction in unemployment or that economic growth would recover to brisk rates. On the contrary, 'the disastrous turn toward austerity has destroyed millions of jobs and ruined many lives,' he argued, with the US Congressexposing Americansto 'the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.' As a result,'Full recovery still looks a very long way off,' he warned. 'And I’m beginning to worry that it may never happen.'​

And Sachs makes the more general point that you can believe in progressive government without buying into Krugman’s kooky economic theories:

There is nothing progressive about large budget deficits and a rising debt-to-GDP ratio. After all, large deficits have no reliable effect on reducing unemployment, and deficit reduction can be consistent with falling unemployment.​

 

How do you know it's "drivel?" Statements like that don't look very good.

Sachs is a progressive Harvard trained economist who is now professor at Columbia. Doesn't that appeal to authority enough for you?

Since reading a few paragraphs seems to be too much effort for you, is one enough? How about one sentence?

I can find no examples of Krugman being right. Plenty of examples of him being flat out wrong. Brian showed you a few, which you don't seem to want to acknowledge. And here is Krugman's peer saying every one of Krugman's commentaries in the NY Times were wrong, for the first half of 2013.

Every one of Krugman's commentaries was wrong.

"Not one of [Krugman’s] New York Times commentaries in the first half of 2013, when “austerian” deficit cutting was taking effect, forecast a major reduction in unemployment or that economic growth would recover to brisk rates. On the contrary, 'the disastrous turn toward austerity has destroyed millions of jobs and ruined many lives,' he argued, with the US Congress exposing Americans to 'the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.' As a result,'Full recovery still looks a very long way off,' he warned. 'And I’m beginning to worry that it may never happen.'"

 

No point in trying to educate someone who insists on ignorance.

That's no insult, it is what it is.