Paul Krugman on the current trajectory: If you ask how long it will take us to return to, say, 5 percent unemployment on the current track, the answer is forever.Like him, I dont think this point is sufficiently understood. Nor are people really
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Yes ... Hindsight IS 20/20 . . . But his foresight was pretty much right on the mark... Next week, President Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy. I hope they're bold and substantive, since the Republicans will oppose ...
The US economy has been crippled by financial crisis, and the presidents too-cautious policies have failed to stem the bleeding. More stimulus is needed, but the public has soured on spending and plans to kick Democrats out of office. Sound ...
There are only three things Mrs. Mao Tse Tung could be: 1) A true believer. 2) A liar. 3) Incredibly self-deceived. 4) Ignorant of the facts.What do you think?
In a comment on my post, "From the Vault: My Review of Krugman," commenter David C writes:I'd like to point out that on taxes at least, Krugman's position hasn't changed from 1990. He still thinks the tax rates we had in 1990 were about optimal. It's ...
Paul Krugman points us to this post by Jonathan Cohn at the New Republic about the mixed-bag internal deliberations at the White House about what to do next for the economy. It's nothing to write home about: Reading between the lines, and based on what ...
Megan McArdle writes , Politically, this has one major drawback: it's going to put huge holes in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Since I think those trust funds are meaningless accounting devices, I don't think this has any practical ...
Is this going to result in further calls for drug tests from Robert Gibbs ? I think it's safe to say when one speaks of the "professional left" Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman are at the top of many people's list. And if this morning's This Week panel ...
Ring in Labor Day with this news: The U.S.shedanother 54,000 jobs in August, slightly advancing the 9.6percent unemployment rate.Good news: Most of the jobs lost were government jobs, as the2010 Census wound down and the Stimulus ran its ...
Paul Krugman's at it again.
With unemployment remaining above 9% for the 16th month in a row -- The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that we need a real stimulus, not a "half-hearted push" to get us out of this economic mess. The... Paul Krugman .
Democrats may try to roll out tax cuts instead of increased stimulus spending to gain a hand in the upcoming midterm elections, says economist Niall Ferguson.
Your culture is simply amazing: Remember--the New York Times is routinely pimped as your nation's smartest newspaper. Amazingly, this incoherent passage appears at the top of this morning's front page , offered by reporters Michael Barbaro and ...
The former 'Dawson's Creek' star - who has been dating the 'Inglourious Basterds' beauty for three years- admits his previous relationships suffered because he always put work first, but has now...
Who done it.
(September 2, 2010 05:17 PM) I was web searching this morning in the Fortune archives--I wrote a lot of articles and books reviews for Fortune between 1983 and the late 1990s--and I came across my December 31, 1990 review of Paul Krugman's 1990 book, ...
IFC Films has taken North American rights to Baltasar Kormakurs thriller Inhale starring Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger.
The masses are asses. We know this. But the level of ignorance displayed by the attendees at the Restoring Honor rally is shocking even by contemporary standards.It is quite clear that Glenn Beck is a master propagandist with a chilling and ...
As the Obama presidency and the Democratic Party continue their journey into the Slough of Despond, its interesting to watch Obama supporters try to process the unfolding events.Some blame it on a failure to communicate. E.J. Dionne, Jr., for ...
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Someone is, anyway.
President Obama may have experienced his Walter Cronkite moment over the economy.Responding to Cronkite's reporting from Vietnam four decades ago that the only way to end the war was by negotiating with the...
A man accused of killing a liquor store owner in a dispute over shoplifting a porn magazine was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison.
by Norman Markowitz This is a quick commentary on a bad Internet connection but I thought I should post it now( that after all is the power of the Internet) . Paul Krugman had an article very recently calling upon President Obama to get rid of Alan ...
Im consistently surprised by the continued hold of superstitious belief in the merits of a gold standard and the evils of fiat money on the part of rightwingers. Here, for example, a Heritage Foundation report on the fundamental economic principle
If the left doesn't come up with a credible and comprehensive alternative to a focus on reducing the deficit, argues FPIF columnist Walden Bello, the far right might eventually fill the policy vacuum.
"The lights are going out all over America," wrote Paul Krugman , the Nobel laureate in economics and New York Times columnist, last month.Krugman was speaking both literally and metaphorically. Among the items he cited: read more
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Last Friday, Third Point founder Dan Loeb released his latest quarterly letter, in which the Third Point founder redirects the feelings he once had for Ken Griffin on the current administration. Paul Krugman read it and hes pretty sure he knows why ...