| | Bush congratulates acerbic critic on Nobel Prize win
 Paul Krugman's recent Nobel Prize was awarded for his economics scholarship, not his biting criticism of George W. Bush, but the latter probably made for an awkward encounter Monday when the outgoing president greeted the Nobel Prize winners in the Oval Office.
Bush received Krugman and two other Nobel laureates for a photo session at the White House.
Gawker's Ryan Tate recalls some of Krugman's criticisms that may have made the encounter a little awkward.
Krugman has referred to Bush as leading the "Party of stupid", said he "got rid of accountability", accused him of "lying" about a "patently, shamelessly dishonest" budget.
In his most recent column, Krugman compared 2008 to 1932 because of the "power vacuum" that has emerged at the height of an economic crisis.
"The interregnum of 1932-1933, the long stretch between the election and the actual transfer of power, was disastrous for the U.S. economy, at least in part because the outgoing administration had no credibility, the incoming administration had no authority and the ideological chasm between the two sides was too great to allow concerted action," he wrote on Friday. "And the same thing is happening now."
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