I doubt it. When the idea that Obama would appoint him to Treasury was floated, he flatly rejected it, on the grounds that the Treasury Secretary should be a good administrator, which he is not. This is just his politics. He feels a strong affinity for Hillary and has always had a pike against the left. It's a sign of the right-wing pull of public discourse that he became a tribune of left-liberal economics. He's also the guy who did this:
Reckonings; A Real Nut Case http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/19/opinion/reckonings-a-real-nut-case.html Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:23 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Robert Naiman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Look on the bright side: it's good to remind the democratic socialist >> masses every now and then that Krugman is not a reliable ally. :) >> > > > > Is Krugman angling for a Cabinet position in a Hillary administration? He > would sure be a big improvement over Larry Summers, but if you have to sell > your soul for it.. > -raghu. > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:38 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Krugman shows his political side every once in a while and when he does, >> it is never pretty.. >> http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/weakened-at-bernies/ >> ------------------------snip >> >> On health care: leave on one side the virtual impossibility of achieving >> single-payer. Beyond the politics, the Sanders “plan” isn’t just lacking in >> detail; as Ezra Klein notes >> <http://www.vox.com/2016/1/17/10784528/bernie-sanders-single-payer-health-care>, >> it both promises more comprehensive coverage than Medicare or for that >> matter single-payer systems in other countries, and assumes huge cost >> savings that are at best unlikely given that kind of generosity. This lets >> Sanders claim that he could make it work with much lower middle-class taxes >> than would probably be needed in practice. >> >> To be harsh but accurate: the Sanders health plan looks a little bit like >> a standard Republican tax-cut plan, which relies on fantasies about huge >> supply-side effects to make the numbers supposedly add up. Only a little >> bit: after all, this is a plan seeking to provide health care, not lavish >> windfalls on the rich — and single-payer really does save money, whereas >> there’s no evidence that tax cuts deliver growth. Still, it’s not the kind >> of brave truth-telling the Sanders campaign pitch might have led you to >> expect. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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