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was an indicator of economic health during the several O'Bama Summers of Recovery. A spin move like that in basketball would have Bill Raftery saying of a defender, "He left some laundry on the floor."
When James Taranto was compiling the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web every day several years ago, he would always introduce a Krugman item by referring to him as "former Enron adviosr" Paul Krugman.