Well, not necessarily, but William Kristol seems to enjoy a rare occasion in which he can admit agreement with the economics-challenged economist of the left.
Kristol and Krugman both take President Obama to task for endorsing multimillion-dollar bonuses for the CEOs of JPMorganChase and Goldman Sachs. In Kristol’s words:
Conservatives and Republicans should not–as some seem to be tempted to do–praise Obama for being friendlier to business in this interview than he has been in the past. They should point out that he’s friendly to big businessmen who are friendly to him, and to businessmen whose businesses are enmeshed in an unhealthy way with big government–and that he remains hostile to markets and indifferent, at best, to businessmen who are actually trying to make it without depending on the goodwill of politicians and favors from the government.
