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Krugman Predicts Doom for the Economy and the Election of Obama

   Krugman Predicts Doom for the Economy and the Election of Obama

We are anxious to study and digest the facts presented by Paul Krugman as we examine the egalitarian minutiae from the latest political proclamations from the New York Time. Today we get an essay on bubble economics. Of course, politics is not based on truth and a gaggle of slobbering economists cannot even get a 50% record of predictions of market directions, so we have to sift out the politics from the economic realities when we read the krugmaniacal one. We expect little other than propaganda and leftist narcotic dreams from essays of the NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]. Today, the ultimate doom of the economy is presented using bubble logic and other phantasms that haunt the left in the form of lost tax revenues.[2]

Home prices are in free fall. Unemployment is rising. Consumer confidence is plumbing depths not seen since 1980. When will it all end?

The answer is, probably not until 2010 or later. Barack Obama, take notice.”--L-ish Economic Prospects By Paul Krugman July 18, 2008. [3][Emphasis is mine in all quotes. This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise noted. ]

Here, a prediction is proffered by our non-economist from the NYT: 2 years from now.

Home prices are not in free fall—they are adjusting to market conditions brought on by over production of housing and limited credit. Any time some market driven item goes down it is the fault of capitalism or Bushism and when it goes up then it may be the result of good government, prudent planning or some other leftist theme unless it generates profits. We can blame the far leftist Greenlining[4] [5] project, a ‘program’ that allowed dead beats, drug addicts, parasites and hucksters to get cheap loans at the expense of banks. Their personal defects are shielded from the credit rating agencies so loaners cannot tell who not to loan money to. Many of these people should not have ever been home owners, but should have stayed in detox, the streets or the mental hospitals where they had some food and a warm place to take a dump. The phony loans given to the undeserving types caused much of this mess as we see in Baltimore in the Skid Row areas. They are better off there ignoring the obvious street drug deals and creating jobs for social workers in Baltimore, Oakland and Philly. But, such phony programs generate votes for liberal Democrats.

Thank you for this. We will remember this and remind your readers of your predictions.

 The rest of the article cooks up the usual Mulligan stew of missed liberal opportunities such as this fluff:

Should we expect [housing] prices to fall all the way back? Well, in the late 1980s, Los Angeles experienced a large localized housing bubble: real home prices rose about 50 percent before the bubble popped. Home prices then proceeded to fall by a quarter, which combined with ongoing inflation brought real housing prices right back to their prebubble[6] level.”

Apparently, there is some bubbly correction mechanism in play that haunts the fevered minds of the far left, exemplified here in this rant that may be different from the usual confluence of supply and demand curves that they teach in elementary economics. I wonder if Krugman ever took an economics course? That would not be mandatory as the training and credentials required to be anointed as a distinguished fellow or university professor are not stringent. Any jerk who denounces capitalism is fit to teach at Harvard. So, they can loudly and confidently proclaim nuances in advanced economics from their high perches while constantly correcting Adam Smith and Say where appropriate. The late 80s decline in real estate in California and Texas were actually isolated and not indicative of a general trend. Krugman frequently cherry-picks the rotten fruits from the economic basket so as to generalize and create new problems and offer proof for his unique new Laws of Economics.

And as an historical summary:

Ending those old-fashioned recessions was easy because all the Fed had to do was relent. Ending modern slumps is much more difficult because the economy needs to find something to replace the burst bubble.

This is about the phoniest essay on economics I have ever read. Markets self-correct and any changes in the normal swings in market levels are grand opportunities for leftists to drool on t heir shoes and proclaim the need for new economic measures, translated, as always, as higher taxes and more government.  We can suppose that the 1987 stock market crash was a bubble or perhaps the times when oil was only about 12$ per barrel and Exxon was losing money. When gold fell from 998$ to 265$ from 1979 to 2000 that must have been a golden bubble. Why is gold now $950? Did the bubble unburst? When the cost of long distance telephone fees fell monotonically for several decades then that must have been a phone bubble.

How many troubles do we have with bubbles?

Easy, like the job they had to do for the Jimmy Carter Malaise? High interest rates and lower spending are the usual remedies. That causes unemployment. It is interesting that O’Bozo has offered to increase spending and taxes on nearly every facet of our economy except the military. That requires very high new taxes. We can wonder if Krugman can show us how the economy can expand, create new jobs, save the auto industry, keep inflation remain be low and have housing prices restored to prebubble levels with an Obama economy?

If you ask me, there isn’t much suspense in this year’s election: barring some extraordinary mistakes, Mr. Obama will win. Assuming he wins, the real question is what he’ll make of his victory.”

What did leftists ever do but howl and attempt to increase taxes and spending? I wonder if this is one of the NYT types that predicted that Hillary would be the next President. The NYT did first endorse Hillary. O’Bozo is a racist, a racist enabler and a far leftist. He offends many with this bigotry, anti-Americanism and tax whoring. He may not win unless ACORN and other criminal groups can stuff enough ballots in the inner cities. It is a long time to November Dorothy.

The Krugman solutions to all problems: high taxes and big government may not be possible even if O’Bozo wins the contest. With the need to increase interest rates [the price of money for the Rio Linda and Baltimore types] the economy cannot expand with new jobs. The Obozo theme of taxing everybody with an income above 250,000$ [not enough money there, sorry…] would also knock out investment in new jobs and businesses, the only major source of new jobs in the economy except for the phony government jobs.

The other missing items here include the missing criticism of people like Chuckles Schumer[7], a racist, traitor and social parasite who leaked sensitive government oversight documents on a big bank [Indy Mac] and caused a run. I guess it is okay for Democrats to sink banks. Did Indy Mac forget to bribe Chuckles? One more jewel, but a salient leftist point, is the notion from Maxine Waters, a psychotic racist, who wanted to nationalize [socialize in her words] the oil companies.[8] France has already done that, and reversed some decisions, and so did Britain off and on. These people are economy wreckers, but are icons of the left as are Jesse Jackson, Al Gore the ‘scientist’[9] and others. It seems socialism has worked well for Europe and Maxine might be the new Commissar who selects the businesses to be grabbed by big government. The USSR was a howling success just like the Great Leap Backward.

Where is the critical economic analysis of California? That state[10] is going to go bankrupt al0ng with New Jersey[11] and Michigan. Maybe Krugman thinks the Calif0rnicans can continue to barrow and spend hoping for a federal bailout since their phony constitution does not allow barrowing past a certain limit and they will go down 15 billion or more soon. Maybe Nancy Pelosi[12] and Dianne Feinstein can get O’Bozo to give some money to California out of the general tax revenues so they can spend more money on sloth, sodomy, slavery, Asian massage parlors and sex with children and pets.

As usual, no reasonable criticism of our path forward is available from the hand-wringing droolers at the Walter Duranty Papers. There is no comment on the supply and demand functions that govern the oil prices as these impacts on leftist politics. Many drooling leftists cannot believe that drilling and producing more oil will lower prices. The economy needs cheap oil and we have plenty, but the EcoNazis [13]try to block any new attempt to increase the energy supply as they have now done with T. Boon Pickens’s wind machine idea[14] in West Texas.

But, we have to praise Paul Krugman for this bubbles comedy and sharing his erratic mumblings with us disguised as the result of competent economic analysis. This is always fun.

 Grunt and Grab

The liberals will say and do anything to get more political power and grab more wealth. Anything at all.

rycK

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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

[3] L-ish Economic Prospects By PAUL KRUGMAN Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 18, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[5] “Prime issues for the Institute include: affirmative action, diversity, banking, smart growth, tax policy, supplier diversity, corporate responsibility, housing/homeownership, Brownfields, government reform, prescription drugs, and transportation.

Greenlining Institute has secured multibillion-dollar commitments from financial institutions to help minorities and low-income people. It has struck investment deals with most of the major banks operating in California - $900 billion of commitments over 10 years. It has community investment agreements with Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo.

Greenlining is opposed to federal preemption of state banking laws and joined with the coalition of organizations that requested the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to scrap its rule preempting national banks from state anti-predatory lending laws.” http://www.communityinvestmentnetwork.org/nc/single-news-item-states/article/greenlining-institute/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1243&cHash=d08c997f5b

[6] Apparently a new word.

[7] Senator Schumer's Brand of Racism

“Pasadena-based IndyMac, with $32 billion in assets, was seized by the government Friday. The loss-ridden mortgage lender had faced an outflow of deposits since Schumer on June 26 made public a letter he sent to the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., saying he was "concerned that IndyMac's financial deterioration poses significant risks to both taxpayers and borrowers." http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/07/sen-chuck-schum.html

[11] A Prediction Come True! The NYT Turns the Old Rusty Crank and Chooses an Old Rusty Crank for Their Primary Choice.

Friday, January 25, 20089:15 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/b2ad9147-7c18-4ee3-a985-c904f5c18a6b

Gov. Jon Corzine wants to shore up his state’s troubled finances by sharply raising tolls. If he gets his way, the cost of driving most of the turnpike could eventually rise from $5.85 to $48, providing money for both debt reduction and public transportation.” [11]

[12]Nancy Pelosi's Red Ring of Marxism Decays

Thursday, November 16, 200612:44 PM

Pelosi: The New Red Flag Rules of Spartacus.

Thursday, November 09, 200610:37 AM

Good Bye Third World. The Dictators (thru Nancy Pelosi)Won!!

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:02 PM

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Pelosi and Her Leftist Parasites Desperately Want Higher Gas Prices. They Will Sink the Economy for Political Gain.

 

Pelosi and Her Leftist Parasites Desperately Want Higher Gas Prices. They Will Sink the Economy for Political Gain.

Nancy Pelosi[1], the one with the corpselike gaze and reptilian repellency in her [its?] demeanor and actions has, again, refused to allow the US oil supply to increase. Allied with other traitors such as Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy[2], Chuck Schumer[3] and Joe Biden, the chance to crash the economy and reap the political plunder of economic chaos is too tempting to pass.

Just like they willingly supported Islamo-Fascism and helped our terrorist enemies kill American soldiers while condemning everything they tried to in Iraq, the rabid left will sink the economy and foment a financial crisis in a frantic effort to gain power. Chuckles Schumer, a racist, published a letter that sunk Indy Mac and caused their bank to be seized by the Feds. Schumer doesn’t think he did anything wrong here. Now, thanx to Schumer’s mouth, folks are losing money in their accounts in that bank.

They can complain about treatment of terrorists in Guantanamo, Cuba but not even mention the beheading and disgusting treatment of US soldiers who fight terrorists. It is clear what they are doing in the political arena: they will trade US lives and treasure for political advantage if they can. They will willingly support our enemies. Their unswerving allegiance to Communists such as Fidel Castro and Joe Stalin are legendary examples of political devotion. Hugo Chavez is now one of their icons.

We would normally call this treason, but, with the current White House occupants, asleep at the switch and attempting to be civil, we cannot do so yet. Bush made a terrible mistake by not hammering these sleaze bags at every pothole they  in the road. To think that we do not have criminals, drunks, parasites, perverts, druggies and worse in our Congress is unimaginable.  Just take a look at the Kennedy Klan and Senator Byrd. Look at the stalling and waffling of Harry Reid.

The voters are angry and the oil companies and Bush and Chaney are castigated as oil patch friends and cheating the people with their Exxon buddies. This is nonsense. These leftist ideologues have deliberately squelched oil supplies and celebrate high gas prices and inflation and unemployment increases.   Capitalism driven by supply and demand laws fix the price of gas and the leftist Democrats have done all they could to limit supply thus boosting the price of gas.

 The game here is anti-capitalism. The fury and foam from fighting, and losing, to Ronald Reagan over his destruction of the far left around the world is still encrusted on the shoes and undergarments of the liberal left.  He was their worst nightmare when he trashed the USSR and they drool at the fangs to get even.

So, we have to listen to traitors and watch their dedicated attempts to stifle our economy so they can blame Bush and then convert our society to socialism. Unfortunately, California and New Jersey have not defaulted as yet[4] because those outcomes might convince the voters that their far-left socialist schemes are utter failures.

They are gambling with their political futures and our economy on this kind of psychotic brinksmanship. Obama is but a sophomoric political construct that flip-flops on any issue he can while trying to keep the leftists flush with blood and meat.  He looks like silly putty on a wobbly stick. He is also an ideological racist and racist enabler and holds dear the nostrums of his crazed racist pastor Jeremiah Wright and his phony church.

 We must continue to point out to the voters that these traitors want to wreck our society, get rid of our SUVs and suburban life and tax us with frivolous carbon taxes[5] and other follies.  They hate us and our capitalism and our private schools and suburban society. They celebrate degeneracy, sloth, sodomy and perversions and would joyously wreck our economy.

Spread the word about these parasites. Hold your nose and support McCain.  All they ever had was the chance to get most or all of your money and wealth and here they come.

rycK

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[1] Pelosi stands firm against offshore drilling

By Carl Hulse Published: July 17, 2008 . http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/17/america/pelosi.php

[2] Krugman Praises the Degenerate Ted Kennedy and Pushes Higher Taxes, of Course. http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/07/11/krugman_praises_the_degenerate_ted_kennedy_and_pushes_higher_taxes,_of_course.thtml

“Ted Kennedy may be compared to other disgusting parasites and murderers like Mumia, Walter Duranty, Susan Sontag, Jane Fonda, Angela Davis, Fidel Castro, Kim, Mao, and Stalin and to his supposed relative Patrick Kennedy.[2] The dirty Kennedy money has bankrolled numerous crimes and sleazy operations. There are several books on the subject.[2]

[3] Senator Schumer's Brand of Racism

“Pasadena-based IndyMac, with $32 billion in assets, was seized by the government Friday. The loss-ridden mortgage lender had faced an outflow of deposits since Schumer on June 26 made public a letter he sent to the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., saying he was "concerned that IndyMac's financial deterioration poses significant risks to both taxpayers and borrowers." http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/07/sen-chuck-schum.html

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