Time to bring your attention to two of the best writers you will find in the United States or anywhere else for that matter. Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd both write for the New York Times Op-Ed page and are worth the hassle of registering on that site for their columns alone. Krugman is the professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and you are unlikely to read a more lucid and easy-to-understand economist anywhere on the planet. Dowd is worth reading even when she writes on a subject you know nothing about. She is funny, merciless and, as one of her readers says, "she makes the fascist right froth". Bookmark the linked pages and dip in now and then. They're worth it.
If you haven't already registered on the NYT site you really should, but in the meantime use bloggsjoe as your user name and bloggsjoe as the password.
Posted by Joe at November 13, 2003 08:32 AMJoe writes:
Krugman is the professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and you are unlikely to read a more lucid and easy-to-understand economist anywhere on the planet. Dowd is worth reading even when she writes on a subject you know nothing about.
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Anyone reading either of these columnists will quickly find that neither knows anything about what they write. Neither is restrained in any way by facts. Both will use the wildest distortions and edited quotes to malign their targets. Krugman attempts to obfuscate with the numbers. Dowd simply does it with nonsense.
Posted by: charley at November 18, 2003 06:10 PMThanks for the comment Charley. Can I ask how you stumbled on to my site?
I find it interesting that, if what you say is correct, one of America's leading universities employs as a professor someone who knows nothing about what he writes. The same would go for Dowd antd the New York Times, but I'm on dodgier ground there because we all know the media doesn't have quite such exacting standards. Though personally I've never had a problem with Dowd. She's always made perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Joe at November 18, 2003 06:40 PM