Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman confirms the Occupy Wall Street movement’s ability to refocus the country’s and Washington’s attention from deficits to jobs when economists like Krugman could not.

“It turns out that no number of learned papers on how we’re doing this wrong, no number of sober editorials on how we’re doing this wrong was making a dent. But something that captures the public’s attention, something that makes a news story out of it (shows) the emperor really is naked and all you have to do is get people to look. That’s how you understand the miracle here.”

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