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By William K. Black April 8, 2016     Bloomington, MN (Crossposted from Huffington Post. Postscript added for NEP) Remember several weeks ago when Hillary Clinton was complaining that Democrats did not consider her a “progressive?”  Bernie Sanders’ big win in Wisconsin ended that tactic and propelled Paul Krugman and Hillary and Bill Clinton to race to the right, inadvertently proving Bernie’s point that they are not progressives on the key issues. In the last week, Hillary and her...

William K. Black February 21, 2006     Bloomington, MN Paul Krugman is plumbing new depths of moral obtuseness, arrogance, and intellectual dishonesty in what is now his third smear of the well-respected economist Gerald Friedman in two days.  My prior column discussed Krugman’s two columns on February 17, 2016.  Here is Krugman’s lead in his column dated February 19. On Wednesday four former Democratic chairmen and chairwomen of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers — three...