44 results for "Paul Krugman"
Paul Krugman: No need to heed babbling barons of bubbleism
Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 12:00 AMBubbles can be bad for your financial health – and bad for the health of the economy, too. The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s left behind many vacant buildings and many more failed dreams. When the housing bubble of the next decade burst,...
Paul Krugman: Studies justifying austerity measures have lost credibility
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:00 AMThose of us who have spent years arguing against premature fiscal austerity have just had a good two weeks.
Paul Krugman: Austerity policies creating long-term unemployment
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 12:00 AMFDR told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won't blame fear, per se.
Paul Krugman: California offers lessons on how to make comeback
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 12:00 AMModern movement conservatism, which transformed the GOP from the moderate party of Dwight Eisenhower into the radical right-wing organization we see today, was largely born in California.
Paul Krugman: We are cheating our children, but it's not because of U.S. debt
Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 12:00 AMSo, about that fiscal crisis – the one that would, any day now, turn us into Greece. Greece, I tell you: Never mind.
Paul Krugman: Marches of folly, from war with Iraq to deficit politics
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMTen years ago, America invaded Iraq; somehow, our political class decided that we should respond to a terrorist attack by making war on a regime that, however vile, had nothing to do with that attack.
Paul Krugman: Right-wing pundits consistently wrong in economic predictions
Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 12:00 AMFour years ago, as a newly elected president began his efforts to rescue the economy and strengthen the social safety net, conservative economic pundits – people who claimed to understand markets and know how to satisfy them – warned o...
Paul Krugman: Zombie economic ideas have eaten Sen. Rubio's brain
Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe State of the Union address was not, I'm sorry to say, very interesting. True, the president offered many good ideas. But we already know that almost none of those ideas will make it past a hostile House of Representatives.
Paul Krugman: GOP tries extortion to kill consumer protection agency
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMLike many advocates of financial reform, I was a bit disappointed in the bill that finally emerged. Dodd-Frank gave regulators the power to rein in many financial excesses; but it was and is less clear that future regulators will use that power....
Paul Krugman: As deficit hysteria fades, Obama can focus on real issues
Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama's second inaugural address offered a lot for progressives to like. There was the spirited defense of gay rights; there was the equally spirited defense of the role of government, and, in particular, of the safety net p...
