"Whatever you do, don't watch the zombie forum that is CNBC, says Paul Krugman.
"Wow. I just did Squawk Box — allegedly about my book, but we never got there,"Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economics professor, wrote on his NYTblog after appearing on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday morning. "Instead it was one zombie idea after another — Europe is collapsing because of big government, health care is terribly rationed in France, we can save lots of money by denying Medicare to billionaires, on and on." He added: "People getting their news from sources like that are probably getting terrible advice about any kind of investment that depends on macroeconomics.""
"Whatever you do, don't watch the zombie forum that is CNBC, says Paul Krugman.
"Wow. I just did Squawk Box — allegedly about my book, but we never got there,"Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economics professor, wrote on his NYTblog after appearing on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday morning. "Instead it was one zombie idea after another — Europe is collapsing because of big government, health care is terribly rationed in France, we can save lots of money by denying Medicare to billionaires, on and on." He added: "People getting their news from sources like that are probably getting terrible advice about any kind of investment that depends on macroeconomics.""