Paul Krugman: You’re All Losers: The other day someone… asked an interesting question: when did it become so common to disparage anyone who hasn’t made it big, hasn’t gotten rich, as a “loser”? Well, that’s actually a question we can answer, using Google Ngrams… the term “losers” has become much more common since the 1960s. … Continue reading Afternoon Must-Read: Paul Krugman: The Rhetoric of: “You’re a Loser!”