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> You know even on 2008 Krugman, who is known for making predictions that end up being wrong, was saying immigration depressed wages of Americans.

Do you have evidence of this claim?

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The common criticism is his prediction about the internet:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/http://www.redher...

> By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

I wasn't aware that he put a "2005" deadline in his prediction. Taking this into account, he probably wasn't wrong actually, at least in terms of net impact: in 2005 most of the moderate positive economic impact of the internet would have been offset by the significant negative economic impact of the dot com bubble and subsequent crash.

I don't read it as a deadline. It's the latest date we will all understand what an economic flop the Internet turned out to be.

Not the latest date at which the Internet was still on par with the fax machine.

See Krugman vs Krugman: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-krugma...

My bad, it was 2006.

"Because Mexican immigrants have much less education than the average U.S. worker, they increase the supply of less-skilled labor, driving down the wages of the worst-paid Americans."

That doesn't sound like the claim you made. It is also a prima facie reasonable claim to make.

That source isn't even able to directly lay out the claim, it spends 5 paragraphs IMPLYING Krugman changed his position for hand-wavy political reasons.

But lacks any direct evidence that he actually did so. It misquotes things and really grasps at straws to make a point, holy moly.

It's so disingenuous lmao.

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