http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/25643/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/samuelson-krugman-maddeningly-wrong-reagan-and-inflation <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Washington Post columnist rebuts New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s claim President Reagan had little to do with taming rising prices. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">In an economic columnist face-off, The Washington Post’s Robert J. Samuelson declared Paul Krugman of The New York Times wrong about inflation history.</p><p dir="ltr">Samuelson said that Krugman’s Jan. 5, column made a “glaring error” when it claimed President Ronald Reagan had little to do with getting double-digit 1980s inflation under control. Samuelson said it was the first time he could recollect devoting an entire column to rebutting another person’s column.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BizMediaJulia" target="_blank">Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/samuelson-krugman-maddeningly-wrong-reagan-and-inflation" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Economy Media Politics 1980s economic columnists Fed policy Federal Reserve history inflation monetary policy New York Times Paul Krugman Paul Volcker Robert Samuelson Ronald Reagan Washington Post Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:52:18 +0000 julia.seymour 47991 at http://archive2.mrc.org