{"id":191482,"date":"2009-08-13T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/sometimes-a-domicile-is-just-a-domicile\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:13:00","slug":"sometimes-a-domicile-is-just-a-domicile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/sometimes-a-domicile-is-just-a-domicile\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, a Domicile is Just a Domicile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/real-estate\/paul-krugman-gets-new-place-hang-his-hat-and-nobel\">Paul Krugman has spent his Nobel Prize money on a bigger and better place to live<\/a>, to the tune of $1.7 million, down from $2.45 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this has caused some snark in the economics blogosphere<sup>*<\/sup>, where they seem to think that Dr. Krugman is trying to time the real-estate market.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2009\/08\/13\/let-krugman-spend-his-money\/\">Felix Salmon<\/a> on this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Krugman came into some unexpected money, $1.4M in Nobel money.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Krugman wanted a nicer house.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Krugman used the unexpected money to buy a nicer house because he wanted to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">live in said nicer house<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yes, I know, it&#8217;s technically a co-op.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">You know, If I had used the phrase, &#8220;economics blogosphere&#8221;, a decade ago, the men in the white suits would have come to haul me away.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Paul Krugman has spent his Nobel Prize money on a bigger and better place to live, to the tune of $1.7 million, down from $2.45 million last year. It appears that this has caused some snark in the economics blogosphere*, where they seem to think that Dr. Krugman is trying to time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}