For the Record?

I never considered Krugman to be a hippie*.
An aging bearded man, sure, but he's no hippie.
Can't fool me...

One small followup on the issue of being prematurely right about the stimulus being too small: you might think that hippies like me were basing their views on some wild and crazy, unorthodox version of economics, while the wise, judicious people who thought that $787 billion was just right were using standard analysis.

But actually it was the other way around.
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In other words, wisdom — as perceived — came from rejecting actual economic analysis in favor of feelings, and not waking up to the fact that the analysis was right until a couple of years of massive unemployment later. The hippies read the textbooks; the Very Serious People apparently rely on close analysis of entrails, or something.

* Never felt his hands in my pocket, playing poor personally so that he could take from hard-working others with less, to carry on with his accustomed, soft, entitled lifestyle that s/he's too lazy to work for and achieve himself...

To me, that's the definition of a 21st century hippie.

ADDED: Ezra Klein? He's a hippie advocate. Naive, with no real-world experience to back his fabulous policy predictions, but no, he's not a hippie either, really. Prolly hangs with 'em though...