Isaw this Daily Beast piece an hour after reading Paul Krugman's latest Substack today, a master work in which he pretty much decimated Heritage Foundation hack economist Stephen Moore -- who, coincidentally, appeared with Trump last week to praise his "strong" economy.
What’s Moore’s problem? I don’t know and I don’t care. The interesting question is why someone so incompetent — apparently he can’t even copy numbers correctly — has consistently failed upward. Trump even tried to put him on the Federal Reserve Board in 2019 , and might have succeeded if Moore hadn’t also turned out to be a grotesque misogynist and a deadbeat dad who had been held in contempt for failure to pay child support.
Looking at the trajectory of Moore’s career, it’s hard to escape the impression that the