Krugman - Barbarism and Baloney

Krugman - Barbarism and Baloney

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist who likes to explain things to we mortals via the New York Times, is a man some people love to hate, right along with the Times. But we're not about hatred here, we're about the science of Bitcoin, so we want to point out to the good Nobelist just how he got it wrong in his "Bits and Barbarism" op-ed piece....


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