President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia ripped The New York Times' Paul Krugman up one way and down the other in a series of tweets responding to a Krugman blog post about his country.
"Let's write about something we know nothing about & be smug, overbearing & patronizing: after all, they're just wogs," Ilves tweeted along with a link to Krugman's post. "Guess a Nobel in trade means you can pontificate on fiscal matters & declare my country a "wasteland". Must be a Princeton vs Columbia thing," Ilves added. (Krugman is a Princeton professor. Ilves, Foreign Policy Magazine notes, went to Columbia.)
Krugman posted a chart analyzing Estonia's GDP since 2007. "So, a terrible — Depression-level — slump, followed by a significant but still incomplete recovery. Better than no recovery at all, obviously — but this is what passes for economic triumph?" Krugman said.
"Let's sh*t on East Europeans: their English is bad, won't respond & actually do what they've agreed to & reelect govts that are responsible," Ilves added ironically.
He also directed Twitter followers to a longer piece in which he discussed Estonia's economic policies, and those of several other Baltic countries. "All six countries are for sound spending and borrowing policies, all six have shown a willingness to undertake needed reforms," Ilves wrote.
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