Hey Paul Krugman!

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by hilzoy

Somehow, this YouTube just seemed appropriate today:

(via Calculated Risk, who also notes Dr. Krugman's answer to a similar question.) 

Open thread.

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Update: I don't have any idea whether any of you share my interest in utterly weird music — music that makes you think: someone actually went to some trouble to do this? — but if you do, and if the idea of companies in the 60s and 70s recording musicals about their products seems at all interesting, you should check out the following links:

(a) American Standards' The Bathrooms Are Coming, about bathroom fixtures. I think the two best are 'It's Revolution! Bathroom Revolution!' and 'My Bathroom Is A Very Private Place'.
(b) GE's 'Got To Investigate Silicones'. The standout here is 'Paradox'.
(c) More.
Enjoy — if that's the right word. 😉

12 thoughts on “Hey Paul Krugman!”

  1. Some of us Boston-area ObWi folks are getting together for dinner next Tuesday (3/24):
    8:30 p.m., Gargoyles On the Square‎, 219 Elm St, Somerville (we’ll be in a private room).
    We may also try to meet up for drinks beforehand, but there’s no specific plan yet.
    If you might be interested, email me at janiemat at myfairpoint.net
    🙂

  2. No offense to your “standout” there hil, but listening to ‘Paradox’ made me want to shove two lit blowtorches in my ears just to make it stop.

  4. Yow, my browser crashed with far too many tabs open, and when it restarted it had “Hey, Paul Krugman!” and “Paradox” playing at the same time. And it took far too long to find the “Paradox” time and close it.

  5. Hilzoy, you only know me as an occasional commenter, but I gotta tell you this song reached through the flat screen, shook me by both shoulders and made me scream “YEAH!, YES!!” It put to music what I’ve been thinking for weeks now.
    Obama is supposed to be a librul? Hell, we have such financial establishment hacks “masterminding” the “recovery on Wall Street” that it really feels like a continuation of the Bush Administration. Instead of hoes beholden to Goldman, how about some real liberals, true reformers, like Krugman and Robert Reich, running the financial show?

  7. As an aficionado of the Portsmouth Synfonia, I found these tunes to lack ‘the common touch’.
    They also call to my mind Sondheim, if Dick Cheney held a gun to his head and demanded an opera for Halliburton.

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