Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics

zogger writes in his journal, "The guy who put together the concept of geographical location combined with cheap transportation leading to 'like trades with like' and the rise of superindustrial trading blocs has won the Nobel economics science prize. He's a bigtime critic of a lot of this administration's policies, and is unabashedly an FDR-economy styled fella. Here is his blog at the NYTimes." Reader yoyoq adds that Krugman's career choice was inspired by reading Asimov's Foundation series at a young age.

Hari Seldon says...

[simaolation]

...shit! Trantor is only worth as much as Compton now!

Re:inspiration

[Anonymous Coward]

I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush.

Barack Obama is leading the way in saving the environment by not flushing. John McCain requires 3 or 4 flushes. Because he's full of shit.

Re:Flat earth...

[77Punker]

Nobody comes here to stay current with the news; we come here for discussion that's better than most other places.

Waah, my world view is under liberal assault

[Bemopolis]

Reading the conservative slams on Krugman's Nobel is like reading the Timecube posts on every Slashdot physics story.

Except that the grammar is distinctly better on the Timecube comments.

Re:Huff post concerned primarily with douchbaggery

[retchdog]

retchdog's corollary to Gat0r30y's law: Nothing is funny on slashdot.

Re:Not just anti-Bush

[Chris Burke]

In Krugman's world, if you don't agree with him... be it economics, politics, whatever... you're not just wrong, you're an idiot.

Sounds like he'd fit in perfectly on Slashdot!

Re:Not just anti-Bush

[jbeach]

And not only has he been rude to those he's disagreed with - Krugman's actually had the horrible to tend to be right! And about one issue after another, too!

I mean, if only he'd had the common decency to NOT predict the housing bubble, and the complete havoc it could wreak on our economy. Then everyone who told him he was totally wrong wouldn't be nursing their hurt feelings.

The sheer nerve of that guy!

Re:Seems like a very cool guy

[Lumpmoose]

For even more geek cred: he made an 'All your base' reference on Olbermann last month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsYZo86S-k [youtube.com] (0:48)

Re:Huff post concerned primarily with douchbaggery

[ChadAmberg]

Waitjustaminute.... The Huffington Post is right wing? Who are you, Stalin?

Re:Seems like a very cool guy

[VShael]

Won't be long now before the Chinese will be telling the US "All your business belong to us"