Obama Krugman

Our Desperate Need for Honest Leadership

Michael Roth | Posted 09.08.2011

Michael Roth

Sensible government seems to have become a contradiction in terms. Democratic leaders have no ideas of their own, while Republican leaders are dedicated to protecting the rich -- not to fiscal responsibility.

Krugman: Obama's Economic Half-Measures Could Cost Dems In 2010

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

The president, then, having failed to exploit his early opportunities, is pinned down in his too-small beachhead. If the Democrats lose badly in th...

Sam Stein

Obama Officials Think Krugman Is Naive: Newsweek's Evan Thomas

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who has the big cover story on the rather prickly relationship between the White House and Paul Krugman, offered a rather surp...

Krugman: 'The Obama Administration Is Dithering' On Banks

The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

In his column today, Nobel laureate economist and intermittent critic of the Obama administration, accuses the President and his economic team of "dit...

Sam Stein

Obama Defends Stimulus Against Critics

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama said today that he never expected the process of crafting a stimulus package to be easy and that he welcomed any idea, regardless of auth...

Krugman: Obama's Stimulus Doesn't Go Far Enough

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Krugman has already criticized President-elect Barack Obama for appearing to rely too much on tax cuts in his economic plan. Now he's adding a mo...

Krugman Hits Obama Over Working-Class Voters

NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

fter Barack Obama's defeat in Pennsylvania, David Axelrod, his campaign manager, brushed it off: "Nothing has changed tonight in the basic physics of ...

Obama Exclusive (Audio): On V.P And Foreign Policy, Courting the Working Class, and Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Mayhill Fowler

Here is the full audio from Senator Barack Obama's fundraiser hosted at a home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco on Sunday, April 6, 2008.

NYT's Krugman Slams Obama On Social Security

New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

As a policy matter, I don't understand why Obama would choose to make a big deal of the small Social Security funding shortfall -- which may not even ...