Originally Posted by Honus

I didn't intend my characterization of this line of thinking as main stream to be authoritative. It's just what I gather from reading bits and pieces here and there. Perhaps someone can correct me on that point. I also don't mean to say that "main stream" = "correct." I'm just saying that the Obamanistas, as I think you called them, are not way out on some limb with their thinking.

I don't know whether that link has any connection to the New York Times, but this one does:I know it's fashionable to reject Krugman, but he always makes sense to my simple mind.