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Pois não é que aconteceu?!
O homem ganhou UM MILHÃO DE DÓLARES de Prêmio Nobel, dos suecos, e em lugar de fazer um investimento sólido, com algum austríaco, foi logo comprar um apartamento de luxo em Manhattan! Onde já se viu, para um acadêmico que atacava os ricos e os famosos?
Será por isso que ele passava todo o seu tempo, no New York Times, reclamando dos republicanos, e pedindo para o Ben Bernanke soltar mais dinheiro para ajudar na recuperação da economia, será que era tudo motivado por sua catastrófica situação pessoal?
Pode ser. Em todo caso, declarando falência, ele vai ter de passar todas as suas contas, inclusive de cartão de crédito, sob supervisão de algum economista republicano, que raiva hem?!
Dá para acreditar que ele foi tão néscio assim?
Precisamos seguir essa história...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Paul Krugman Declares Personal Bankruptcy
The Daily Currant, March 06, 2013
Economist and columnist Paul Krugman declared personal bankruptcy, following a failed attempt to spend his way out of debt.
In a Chapter 13 filing to the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, lawyers for Krugman listed $7,346,000 in debts versus $33,000 in assets.
The majority of his debts are related to mortgage financing on a $8.7 million apartment in lower Manhattan, but the list also includes $621,537 in credit card debt and $33,642 in store financing at famed jeweler Tiffanys and Co.
The filing says that Krugman got into credit card trouble in 2004 after racking up $84,000 in a single month on his American Express black card in pursuit of rare Portuguese wines and 19th century English cloth
Rather than tighten his belt and pay the sums back, the pseudo-Keynesian economist decided to "stimulate" his way to a personal recovery by investing in expenses he hoped would one day boost his income.
Cockroaches and Creditors
Between 2004 and 2007 Krugman splurged on expensive cars, clothes, and travel in hopes that the new lifestyle would convince his bosses at the New York Times to give him a giant raise.
"They say always dress for the job you want," Krugman explains. "So I thought maybe if I showed up in $70,000 Alexander Amosu suits they would give me ownership of part of the company. If I had only been granted a sliver of the New York Times Co., I could have paid everything back."
Even after he realized an equity stake was not going to happen, Krugman continued to spend wildly hoping his bling and media appearances would increase demand for his personal brand and lift his book sales.
His biggest mistake came in 2007, when at the height of the financial bubble he decided to invest in high-end real estate in New York City. His multi-million dollar apartment lost 40 percent of its value just months after its purchase, and has been underwater ever since.
"You'd think a Nobel Prize winning economist could recognize a housing bubble," says Herman Minsky, a retired television executive who purchased Krugman's home at a huge discount. "But hey, I'm not complaining."
Conscience of a Fraud
Krugman, a renowned trade economist, joined the New York Times as a columnist in 2000. Since the start of the financial crisis he as used the platform to argue vociferously for what he terms Keynesian deficit spending.
However, Keynes did not advocate using debt financing to stimulate the economy. Rather, he argued that government should save in the good times and spend in the bad.
Through his lawyer, Bertil Ohlin, Krugman explains that despite his travails with spending and debt in his personal finances, he stands by his pseudo-Keynesian policies.
"I still defend my analysis that on the macroeconomic level sovereign debt crises can be fixed by increasing government borrowing to lift aggregate demand. I admit, however, that on the microeconomic level this strategy has failed spectacularly."
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Pois não é que aconteceu?!
O homem ganhou UM MILHÃO DE DÓLARES de Prêmio Nobel, dos suecos, e em lugar de fazer um investimento sólido, com algum austríaco, foi logo comprar um apartamento de luxo em Manhattan! Onde já se viu, para um acadêmico que atacava os ricos e os famosos?
Será por isso que ele passava todo o seu tempo, no New York Times, reclamando dos republicanos, e pedindo para o Ben Bernanke soltar mais dinheiro para ajudar na recuperação da economia, será que era tudo motivado por sua catastrófica situação pessoal?
Pode ser. Em todo caso, declarando falência, ele vai ter de passar todas as suas contas, inclusive de cartão de crédito, sob supervisão de algum economista republicano, que raiva hem?!
Dá para acreditar que ele foi tão néscio assim?
Precisamos seguir essa história...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Paul Krugman Declares Personal Bankruptcy
The Daily Currant, March 06, 2013
Economist and columnist Paul Krugman declared personal bankruptcy, following a failed attempt to spend his way out of debt.
In a Chapter 13 filing to the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, lawyers for Krugman listed $7,346,000 in debts versus $33,000 in assets.
The majority of his debts are related to mortgage financing on a $8.7 million apartment in lower Manhattan, but the list also includes $621,537 in credit card debt and $33,642 in store financing at famed jeweler Tiffanys and Co.
The filing says that Krugman got into credit card trouble in 2004 after racking up $84,000 in a single month on his American Express black card in pursuit of rare Portuguese wines and 19th century English cloth
Rather than tighten his belt and pay the sums back, the pseudo-Keynesian economist decided to "stimulate" his way to a personal recovery by investing in expenses he hoped would one day boost his income.
Cockroaches and Creditors
Between 2004 and 2007 Krugman splurged on expensive cars, clothes, and travel in hopes that the new lifestyle would convince his bosses at the New York Times to give him a giant raise.
"They say always dress for the job you want," Krugman explains. "So I thought maybe if I showed up in $70,000 Alexander Amosu suits they would give me ownership of part of the company. If I had only been granted a sliver of the New York Times Co., I could have paid everything back."
Even after he realized an equity stake was not going to happen, Krugman continued to spend wildly hoping his bling and media appearances would increase demand for his personal brand and lift his book sales.
His biggest mistake came in 2007, when at the height of the financial bubble he decided to invest in high-end real estate in New York City. His multi-million dollar apartment lost 40 percent of its value just months after its purchase, and has been underwater ever since.
"You'd think a Nobel Prize winning economist could recognize a housing bubble," says Herman Minsky, a retired television executive who purchased Krugman's home at a huge discount. "But hey, I'm not complaining."
Conscience of a Fraud
Krugman, a renowned trade economist, joined the New York Times as a columnist in 2000. Since the start of the financial crisis he as used the platform to argue vociferously for what he terms Keynesian deficit spending.
However, Keynes did not advocate using debt financing to stimulate the economy. Rather, he argued that government should save in the good times and spend in the bad.
Through his lawyer, Bertil Ohlin, Krugman explains that despite his travails with spending and debt in his personal finances, he stands by his pseudo-Keynesian policies.
"I still defend my analysis that on the macroeconomic level sovereign debt crises can be fixed by increasing government borrowing to lift aggregate demand. I admit, however, that on the microeconomic level this strategy has failed spectacularly."
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Desde quando Paul Krugman começou a escrever para o New York Times, ele começou a delirar. Sei disso, pois havia lido e apreciado alguns livros dele nos anos 1990, sobre comércio internacional, e até escrevi a resenha de um deles, com muito prazer,...
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Aos que apreciam Paul Krugman, o artigo abaixo serve para retificar algumas de suas ligeirezas. Depois que ele deixou de ser economista, para ser colunista do NYTimes, ele perdeu sua habitual presteza com os dados, e talvez até a honestidade intelectual....
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