With inflation worse than he predicted, NY Times' Krugman admits: 'I was wrong', a 'lesson in humility'
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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman admits he was was "wrong" for predicting that inflation rates would never be this high, even after massive Biden spending.
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Krugman began by recounting the "intense debate among economists about the likely consequences of the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion package enacted by a new Democratic president and a (barely) Democratic Congress." He mentioned how he originally didn’t see the massive government spending bill as that dangerous for the economy.
"Some warned that the package would be dangerously inflationary; others were fairly relaxed. I was Team Relaxed. As it turned out, of course, that was a very bad call," he confessed.
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