As Krugman observes when they no longer can refute your words they do silly things making it clear how silly they really are. Evidently some Right wingers have been trying to target Krugman lately:
"I've been debating whether to post this, but I guess I probably should just for future reference. Apparently there are a number of people on the political right who have given up actually trying to refute what I say, and have turned to stupid pranks instead. Regular readers may recall that in recent months one guy opened a Google Plus account pretending to be me, making outrageous posts that got picked up by right-wing blogs; then someone opened a fake Twitter account in my name, doing the same thing."
"What seems to be happening now is that people are pretending to be me and signing up for stuff — subscriptions to various things, presumably in the hope of cluttering up my inbox (won’t work — I have very effective filtering), stuff that I can only guess was supposed to cause embarrassment (I think a porn video site?), etc."
"And I guess I should feel flattered; apparently these people can’t find real things I do or say that they can work with, which says that I’m doing pretty well."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/puerile/
First thing that goes through my mind was "where was Stephen Williamson on the dates in question?" he's my first suspect. Let's bring him in for questioning.
Exhibit 1 is this post http://newmonetarism.blogspot.com/2012/03/lazy-macroeconomics.html
Really, this is why you have to love Krugman. I know some MMTers have questioned him on the banking stuff. However all that may be though I think 'by their adversaries you will know them.' Krugman is the most high profile guy out there making the case for Team Keynes.
The idea as some have suggested that Krugman should be fired-because they think he doesn't understand banking-is absurd. And what leave the NYT to David Brooks?
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