Paul Krugman, the “legendary” economist, is retiring from the New York Times.
Needless to say, X users couldn’t hide their glee.
( We will update this post throughout the day as more tweets come in.)
Kathleen Kingsbury wrote a note in the Times on Krugman’s retirement. Here is a small excerpt from her piece.
“Beginnings are always difficult, as Paul said, and so are endings. I’m writing to let you know that he has decided to retire from The Times at the end of the year. He plans to write a final column soon — though he will forever be a friend of Opinion.
Paul is an important figure in the recent history of Times Opinion. Time and again, he took on the big fights, grappled with policy deeply and seriously, held the powerful to account and spoke hard truths — sometimes as a lonely voice arguing unfashionable positions. He was a strong, clear, early opponent of the American invasion of Iraq and spent years shining a light on the lies and consequences involved with that war. He was a principled critic of George W. Bush’s leadership and many of his policy priorities and, with lucid prose, helped readers understand the implications of the Bush tax cuts and his proposed privatization of Social Security. And Paul was plenty tough on Bush’s successor, too: Barack Obama hadn’t even taken office in 2009 when Paul memorably took apart the president-elect’s prescription for the Great Recession: ‘The economic plan he’s offering isn’t as strong as his language about the economic threat,; Paul wrote. ‘In fact, it falls well short of what’s needed.’ “
Kathleen’s full letter can be found here.