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Oct 13 2008 8:55am EDT

Idle Chatter: Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate

-New York Times columnist Paul Krugman now has a killer comeback to anyone who disagrees with him: "Yeah, but did you win the Nobel Prize in economics?" [AP]

-John McCain has scheduled a make-up appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. He may end up wishing he hadn't. [CNN]

-What are people actually buying more of in this economy, besides harmonicas and those gloves with the fingers cut off? Financial-advice books. [WSJ]

-Also, copies of the Financial Times. [MediaFile]

-Big media outlets are getting less stingy about linking to competitors. [NYT]

-Simon Dumenco on what Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington have in common besides the online news-aggregation business: "[B]oth Tina and Arianna, of course, are shameless starfuckers." [Ad Age]. □

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