Posts Tagged ‘Paul Krugman’

Paul Krugman wastes no time staking out a critical position on Obama’s economic recovery plan, based on what he heard and didn’t hear in the inaugural address. His gloss on the John Maynard Keynes subtext is the first I’ve heard.
Paul Krugman: Stuck in the Muddle - NYT 012309:
Thus, in his speech Mr. Obama attributed the [...]

Paul Krugman: Franklin Delano Obama? - NYT 111008:
About the New Deal’s long-run achievements: the institutions F.D.R. built have proved both durable and essential. Indeed, those institutions remain the bedrock of our nation’s economic stability. Imagine how much worse the financial crisis would be if the New Deal hadn’t insured most bank deposits. Imagine how [...]

Paul Krugman: The Republican Rump - NYT 110308:
Instead, the Republican rump, the party that’s left after the election, will be the party that attends Sarah Palin’s rallies, where crowds chant “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” It will be the party of Saxby Chambliss, the senator from Georgia, who, observing large-scale early voting by African-Americans, warns his [...]

Paul Krugman: When Consumers Capitulate - NYT 103108:
Some background: one of the high points of the semester, if you’re a teacher of introductory macroeconomics, comes when you explain how individual virtue can be public vice, how attempts by consumers to do the right thing by saving more can leave everyone worse off. The point is [...]

Paul Krugman: The Real Plumbers of Ohio - NYT 102008:
…what’s really happening to the plumbers of Ohio, and to working Americans in general?
First of all, they aren’t making a lot of money. You may recall that in one of the early Democratic debates Charles Gibson of ABC suggested that $200,000 a year was a middle-class [...]