Was Scarborough listening when Krugman explained why "we can't" fix economy by doing "the things we did in the '80s"?
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SUMMARY: Joe Scarborough stated that "the average unemployment rate for 1984" was the "same that the unemployment rate is right now" and then added: "[A]nd ... 1975, it was nine [percent]; 1982, it was about 11 percent, and we didn't nationalize everything then and ... we didn't say we're going to put a stimulus bill out there to get people back to work right now and spend money we didn't have." But during a Morning Joe appearance with Scarborough less than a month earlier, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman explained why "we can't do the things we did in the '80s" to fix the economy.
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