This is even better than a huge pot of coffee on this morning: watch as the president of Estonia takes down the insufferable Paul Krugman. (Also noted on Foreign Policy.) It's absolutely a flame war to savor as a head of state mixes it up with an econ Nobel Prize winner. I had honestly not paid much previous attention to President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, but I gotta say that as of right now, I love you, man. You now get your own blog tag! The "nerds behaving badly" tag goes to Krugman.
UPDATE: Ilves hits back twice as hard and reminds us of a recent news report on the Estonian economic success. More on Ilves - a Columbia man (which explains his tweeted potshot at the Princeton background of Krugman, hahaha). Note too this piece that Ilves wrote back in March. Follow him on Twitter here.
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