It was very frustrating after 2008 trying to get anyone at all to comment on, you know, what exactly QE was, you know, or give an explanation that would make sense to an ordinary person.”

Taibbi then railed on Paul Krugman: “So I first noticed this, I guess I was reading Paul Krugman last fall. He did like a whole series. He's done probably a dozen of these articles, maybe a half dozen, where the substance of it is people are saying they don't feel positively about the economy, but they're wrong. Here's why they're wrong. And even when the question was phrased as how do you feel about the economy, here's Paul Krugman who's, like, living somewhere in the Caribbean."