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To: Brumar89 who wrote (696003)	1/29/2013 9:17:15 PM
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Enron Follies Rich Karlgaard, 02.13.02, 8:00 AM ET We take no joy in watching Paul Krugman sink with the Enron scandal and blow his Nobel chances. (Okay, we do.) The Princeton economics professor, as it turns out, pocketed a $50,000 "advisory" fee from the oil trader in 1999. Then he wrote a puff piece inFortune, the fashion magazine, only weeks later. Krugman now blamesGeorge W. Bush and Dick Cheney for dragging him into this. Twice a week he stomps his feet at the gods of injustice from the op-ed pages ofThe New York Times. One feels for Krugman. Three years ago he told a London interviewer he envied the life of John Maynard Keynes. Awful times--wars, plagues and depressions--spur nervous world leaders to reach out for wise men like Keynes. The worse the economy got in the 1930s, the more Keynes bestrode Parliament like a colossus. How satisfying! Cont... forbes.com