Nobel Economist Paul Krugman Criticized For His Negative Stance on Bitcoin
Paul Krugman, one of the most well-known economists currently serving the University of New York as a Professor of Economics, was harshly criticized by the Bitcoin community, experts, analysts and journalists this past week due to his inevident and inaccurate remarks on Bitcoin. Krugman, who has consistently dismissed the underlying concept of Bitcoin and condemned the idea of having a currency without a central government or administrator, criticized the immutability of Bitcoin on social media. He stated: “Whoops -- forgot Mulvaney's Bitcoin derp: “He praised Bitcoin as a currency that is....
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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....
The vast majority of economists seem to have a serious distaste for Bitcoin. Whenever an economist who has received a Nobel Prize, teaches at an Ivy League school or works at a central bank comments on Bitcoin, they always seem to have something negative to say about the technology. Some of these individuals simply say that Bitcoin has no future whatsoever, while others go as far as to claim it is pure evil. Paul Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, has ridiculed Bitcoin on multiple occasions. Late last month, fellow Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz shared his own disdain for....
If you and I are ready to settle our trade in Bitcoin, this technological marvel is here to stay. But even a nobel award winning - and stubbornly ideological - economist like Paul Krugman has to be explained this very simple fact. The poster child of traditional finance system has once again tried his very best to besmirch Bitcoin, while repeating the age-old rhetorics related to the digital currency's longevity as a value-holding asset. The comments come during a show, ironically called "The Genius of Economics", where Mr. Krugman is asked about his views on the disruptive digital....