https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/alan-krueger-dead.html
Alan Kruegman - Unlikely Suicide.
His latest book, Roconomics, was due out in June, and is on the economics of the music industry. Don’t you think a nerdy econ professor would want to have a little bit of the rock star glamour that would come his way over this book that is supposed to be coming out in a few months.
If he was really contemplating suicide, why was he spending the time and effort involved to write a book in the first place during the preceding year or 2 that it presumably took to write/edit/sell it?
He was a top economic adviser to former President Barack Obama.
He was an esteemed professor at Princeton.
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I found this article that mentions Alan Kruegman and a program he was involved with a “free school” program, “where the associate contribution to a college degree would be just $1 a day. Walmart will subsidize the cost of tuition, books and fees and students will not need to pay any upfront costs to attend classes, eliminating the need for student loan debt and addressing one the biggest hurdles that keep people from returning to college.”
https://www.floridatrend.com/article/24662/uf-to-partner-with-walmart-in-new-education-benefit-for-associates
It mentions Alan Kruegman’s involvement and it also mentions a group called the Lumina Foundation. This foundation looks like a real money laundering exercise, perhaps a way to pay of trainees of the George Soros-like army of communist students and teachers. Perhaps used as a slush fund for payoffs of all kinds. It’s workings seem really mysterious to me at the moment.
https://bigthink.com/Lumina-Foundation/lumina-prize-for-education-startups
Could Alan Kruegman’s unlikely suicide be related to the college admissions scandal that started last week?
https://www.luminafoundation.org