The reason I dislike Krugman is not cause I disagree with him, it's cause he disagrees with himself so often depending the subject, and he's always twisting facts and finding "clever" justifications to push whatever bull he now believes. Lastly it's his dishonest interpretation of facts, skipping over some details while focusing on others, in order to spin a story to fit his narrative. As Michael Malice says "factual but not truthful". Lastly is when he conflates apples and oranges in a slight of hand I'm surprised so few pick up (well the average Krugman reader isn't an economist but still) such as comparing US debt at the end of WW2 with US GDP at the beginning of WW2 to give a much bigger debt to GDP ratio, just to say "see we've had much worse debt to GDP ratios before".<br><br>The minute I was old enough to care about truth and not tribes I went from listening to Marxists to listening to those on the other side, convinced I was always going to remain a Marxist. I've been an inflationist for years but subscribed to deflationits and even bought two of their books. I'm happy to consider Krugman's views I just can't imagine ever respecting the man. For him politics comes before economics