In his latest column for the New York Times, award-winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman excoriates French President François Hollande for supporting the EU's German-led policy of economic austerity, and, in the process, "failing France [and] Europe as a whole.""François Hollande ... coulda been a contender," Krugman begins, nodding to the famous line delivered by Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" and, by implication, calling Hollande's political career kaput.