It always makes me laugh because it's not even a real Nobel prize

Not that the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize in Literature isn't political horse shit half the time...

A chicken burrito at Taco Johns costs 7 fucking dollars.

I'm just glad we didn't give everybody raises. These economists clearly were right when they said if everybody got a raise inflation would be insane.

Instead we just had massive inflation at the same wages so everybody is fucked.

Laughs in price of agricultural inputs

I never realized how weird of a phrase it was.

I never googled "food insecurity" because I could imagine what the definition was. But check out the third sentence on the health.gov page. Emphasis mine.

Food Insecurity - Healthy People 2030

Food insecurity is defined as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In 2020, 13.8 million households were food insecure at some time during the year. Food insecurity does not necessarily cause hunger, but hunger is a possible outcome of food insecurity.

And look at the phrasing - "13.8 million households". How many people is that?

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Libs love terms that they can use to make something they don't want to think about more abstract. In this case - they can avoid having to use sentences like this...

• They don't get enough to eat.
• They don't have enough to eat.
• Sometimes they don't have enough to eat.

And libs don't want to seem cruel and dismissive so they would like to avoid...

• Sometimes they are forced to skip meals because they don't have enough money.
• Sometimes they go hungry because they don't have enough money.

Enter "food insecurity". Voilà!

• They suffer from food insecurity.

No mention of troublesome words like eat, meals, money, hungry or god forbid hunger.

Yachts, exotic animals, Fabergé eggs, precious metals, artisanal cocaine... Normal stuff that you'll need in any household.

There’s used boats! And video games! And amusement parks!

you wouldn't want to hurt ThE eCoNoMy, would you?

He is literally the zombie 😂

No, just the economics wanna-be Nobel prize

Peter Nobel describes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as a "false Nobel prize" that dishonours his relative Alfred Nobel, after whom the prize is named, and considers economics to be a pseudoscience.

Traditional theory builds on the idea that countries differ in resources like capital and labour, thereby explaining why poor countries export agricultural products and import industrial goods from richer countries. But traditional theory does not explain why, in reality, world trade is dominated by rich countries trading similar goods with each other. For instance, a country like Sweden exports Volvo and SAAB cars but also imports BMW and Toyota cars.

there's some interesting work to be done to understand why krugman was given a nobel prize, from a marxist-leninist viewpoint. his work ultimately serves to justify imperialism, to provide a naturalistic explanation for the disparity between rich and poor countries, and thereby obfuscating the role that neocolonial violence plays in suppressing wages and extracting resources for the benefit of the imperial core. and that the nobel prize committee serves to glorify and reinforce this practice for aspiring economists, as a means of ensuring their loyalty to the regime's ideology and stamping out heresy by withholding their imprimatur.

his award lays bare the farce that is the nobel prize. lmao indeed.

I'm more convinced it'll be the Mormons. They're far more tightly organized than the Amish.

Lin-Manuel Miranda could write a musical called Bernie.

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[Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Professor K who enters from stage left. He immediately starts to rap.]

I'm here to econ-ed-u-rap. Bring the economics knowledge and hit ya with a rap.
I won the Nobel Prize for Economics which doesn't scan right but...

[Chorus] It's important (Important)

[Professor K] Bernie's ideas are unrealistic and lack pragmatism. I'm sorry to say.

[Chorus] Sadly true (true)

[Professor K] The way to do it is Bidenomics.

[Chorus] Yay! Bidenomics! Yay!