If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
Paul KrugmanThe trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
Paul KrugmanNow, itโs true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.
Paul Krugman