Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies

[jim bell]

    On Friday, May 1, 2015, 2:31:49 PM PDT, <dan at geer.org> wrote: 
  The (my)
speech I cited is what I had to say on the record, and is
the best that I've (currently) got; I'll revisit when time
permits.  Here, though, is Paul Krugman in a similar vein
three weeks ago today:

[PK] Paul Krugman, "Apple and the Self-Surveillance State," New
York Times, 10 April 2015
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/apple-and-the-self-surveillance-state

> --dan


Paul Krugman is that fool who predicted an economic crash after the election.  He quickly modified this prediction,      https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/the-long-haul/
but he carefully hedged by saying:
"But it’s important not to expect this to happen right away. There’s a temptation to predict immediate economic or foreign-policy collapse; I gave in to that temptation Tuesday night, but quickly realized that I was making the same mistake as the opponents of Brexit (which I got right). So I am retracting that call, right now. It’s at least possible that bigger budget deficits will, if anything, strengthen the economy briefly. More detail in Monday’s column, I suspect."
The problem is the definition of "briefly".  Months?  Years?  Economies tend to be cyclic, which means that until the next recession occurs, Krugman will say he's right, and when that recession occurs, he will still say he's right.
               Jim Bell  
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