After Novel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called Jon Stewart "lazy" for mocking the idea of minting a trillion dollar coin to avoid the debt ceiling, the "Daily Show" host followed up with a segment calling Krugman "the rare gray-bearded urban laureate."
It all started with a blog post for the New York Times. Krugman criticized an earlier "Daily Show" segment, in which Stewart called the platinum coin idea "mak[ing] sh** up." Krugman wrote that Stewart's team had been "lazy" and demonstrated a "lack of professionalism."