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by throw0101c 41 days ago
> It's been decades since he was in a policy position and these days he's more of a commentator, opinionator who is often wrong.

He was never in a policy position (perhaps one year under Feldstein in Reagan's CEA?).

In a 2011 paper examining talking head / pundit prediction accuracies, Krugman came out on as most accurate:

* https://www.hamilton.edu/documents/an-analysis-of-the-accura...