Politics | Paul Krugman Krugman Emerges as 'Voice of Loyal Opposition' Newsweek sees lefty economist as top critic By Kevin Spak Posted Mar 28, 2009 2:06 PM CDT Copied Paul Krugman of Princeton University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2008, holds his Nobel lecture at the Aula Magna of the Stockholm University, Dec. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson, Scanpix Sweden) Monday’s issue of Newsweek will have a pretty striking cover story. The headline “OBAMA IS WRONG: The Loyal Opposition of Paul Krugman,” will be plastered over a close-up of the Nobel Prize-winning economist, reports Politico. "Every once in a while," writes Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, "a critic emerges who is more than a chatterer." Krugman hasn't been shy about bashing President Obama's remedies. But "what is striking about this development is that Obama’s most thoughtful critic is taking on the president from the left," says Meacham. It's too early, of course, to know whether he's correct, but "a lot of people have a ‘creeping feeling’ that the Cassandra from Princeton may just be right. After all, the original Cassandra was.” Read These Next Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. Trump just used a spending maneuver last seen nearly 50 years ago. Naomi Osaki is fully on Taylor Townsend's side in this spat. One key to Telsa's huge court loss: a hacker in Starbucks. Report an error