Who to believe, Paul Krugman or anonymous posters on an online message board?

[Jim Lane]

41. He's leaving Princeton but I'm not aware of any disgrace.

I'm surprised you found nothing on the internet because it's in his blog at the Times website: "Changes (Personal/Professional)". In that post from five months ago, he wrote:

Some news: I have informed Princeton that I will be retiring at the end of next academic year, that is, in June 2015. In August 2015 I will join the faculty of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, as a professor in the Ph.D. program in economics. I will also become a distinguished scholar at the Graduate Center’s Luxembourg Income Study Center.

He elaborates on his reasons. The one he highlights is that his focus has been shifting toward issues of inequality, and the Luxembourg Income Study Center is a good place to pursue that. He also mentions lifestyle issues. In another thread on DU, people seemed to be emphasizing the idea that he didn't want to keep teaching the children of the elite at an expense private university. Krugman's own blog includes something like that but more as a throwaway one-liner: "I also, to be honest, like the idea of being associated with a great public university."

BTW, you can rely on everything I've written in this post, because I'm not an anonymous poster on an online message board. In that capacity, I'll opine that Krugman's grade of A- for Obama was somewhat too generous (and not completely consistent with his own writings, such as his criticism of Obama for not even asking for a larger stimulus and for overselling the benefits of what he did propose). When I voted for Obama I expected that, in the sixth year of his administration, I'd probably be giving him a B+. Instead, I'm giving him a B, so you can count me as mildly disappointed but not very, because I never expected a call for single-payer or the like.