TW: We posted a shot of Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman receiving perfunctory congrats from W. Bush last week. Several economic bloggers decided to run caption contests. The winners were as selected by Krugman himself:
“So then I said to Cheney, ‘Duh! Piecewise continuous functions are always Riemann integrable, so just invert the matrix and use a polynomial distributed lag to eliminate the heteroskedasticity!’ What a lightweight!”
(subtler, with that New Yorker feel to it):
“One had longed for the Nobel Prize, the other loved being president … yet at that moment, both men felt a little empty.”
TW: Krugman was also asked what he was thinking while standing with W:
"What I was actually thinking was:
1. Whether it would be a faux pas to ask Bush what nickname he had given me. I decided that it would.
2. What a great job my wife had done in making small talk about her childhood in Texas (her father had been a Republican precinct captain, and he had once hosted George H.W. Bush in his living room)."
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/what-krugman-was-really-thinking/
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