Paul Krugman Ignorantly Calls Bitcoin "The Long Cryptocon"
American Economist Paul Krugman has written another anti-Bitcoin piece that, believe it or not, is much less accurate than Krugman's original Bitcoin article released in late 2013 on the New York Times, titled Bitcoin is Evil. In the "evil" article, Krugman didn't support his titular claim within the text of the opinion article. In fact, it's almost as if he wrote his article in response to Charlie Stross's wish for a quick and fiery Bitcoin death, and added the title as a joke. Krugman specifically referred to his analysis of "Bitcoin" as a positive one, which he was trying to maintain....
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has compared the current state of cryptocurrency to the housing bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis. Noting that crypto lacks any real value, he said: “it is a house built not on sand, but on nothing at all.”
Paul Krugman on Crypto, Housing Bubble, and Subprime Mortgage Crash
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman discussed the current state of cryptocurrency in an opinion piece published in the New York Times Monday.
Krugman won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2008....
In this video clip, Paul Krugman demonstrates once again that prizes don’t make you an expert on everything. Indeed, his poor prognostications happen so frequently that one wonders if Krugman is an expert on anything. I don’t say that to be unpleasant. If you’re going on TV and enjoying a lavish lifestyle by pretending to know what you’re talking about,....