James Galbraith

Alexander Eichler

Jay Carney: Economists Didn't Know How Bad The Recession Would Get

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Jay Carney, James Galbraith, Stimulus, Congressional Budget Office, Recession, Barack Obama, Douglas Elmendorf, Video, Mark Zandi, Economic Stimulus Package, Martin Feldstein, Great Recession, Economists, Paul Krugman, Dean Baker, Great Depression, Business News

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made a surprising assertion on MSNBC Wednesday, saying that in early 2009, as Barack Obama was taking office, t...

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Eamon Murphy

Larry Summers Denounces Inequality -- But Why?

HuffingtonPost.com | Eamon Murphy | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Joseph Stiglitz, James Galbraith, Derek Shearer, Income Inequality, Great Recession, Larry Summers, Harvard, Economic Inequality, Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary, Dean Baker, Business News

Why is Larry Summers suddenly so worried about inequality? The Harvard professor -- a former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Barack Obama’s first D...

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The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It)

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Jacob Hacker, Robert Kuttner, Jobs Crisis, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Reich, James Galbraith, Michael Bloomberg, Krugman-Stiglitz Army, Finanacial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Kuttner Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Dylan Ratigan, Occupy Movement, Zuccotti Park, Lawrence Lessig, Nouriel Roubini Financial Crisis, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Krugman Stiglitz, Wall Street, Joseph Stiglitz, Occupy, Cornell West, Krugman Economy, Paul Krugman, Bill Mckibben, Simon Johnson, Jeff Madrick, Occupy Wall St, Krugman's Army, Naomi Klein, Dean Baker, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

Whether or not the the #Occupy Wall Street protesters explicitly adopt policy proposals or only generate political energy for the spirit of them, the Krugman/Stiglitz Army is at last on the march.

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LISTEN: Economist Says Debt Is Good

The Huffington Post | Zach Carter | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: James Galbraith Debt, Debt, Deficit, Npr, Video, Debt Is Good, Unemployment, Debt James Galbraith, James Galbraith Debt Is Good, James Galbraith, Economy, Jobs, James Galbraith Npr, Politics News

University of Texas Economist James Galbraith tells NPR that government debt and federal deficits are good things that create jobs and help the econom...

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The Myth That Banks Are Solvent

Marshall Auerback | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Banks, Unemployment, Credit, Lending, Liquidity, James Galbraith, Oswald Grubel, New Deal, Economy, Illiquidity, Recession, Business News
Marshall Auerback

Many financial institutions are hopelessly insolvent, holding mountains of toxic waste that will never be worth anything. So why are we implementing policies that simply maintain a credit-based economy?

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IMF Protesters Try to Disrupt Cambridge University Address by Strauss-Kahn

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Auerback, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Robert Kuttner, George Soros, Yves Smith, Joseph Stiglitz, Adair Turner, James Galbraith, Rob Johnson, John Shattuck, Kings College, Imf, Simon Johnson, Lawrence Mishel, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Politics News
Steve Clemons

IMF Executive Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is "cool under fire", as Central European University President John Shattuck said when introducing him, and didn't break his stride during his presentation at Kings College, University of Cambridge.

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Dan Froomkin

'Naked Keynesianism' At The University Of Texas, Says Fox News (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naked Keynsianism, Fox News, James Galbraith, Varney Keynes, Stuart Varney, Keynes, Varney Galbraith, Galbraith Deficit, James Galbraith Keynes, Keynesianism, Business News

Fox News host Stuart Varney has lashed out at University of Texas economist James Galbraith for teaching his students "naked Keynesianism" -- to Galbr...

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The Ports Challenge

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, James Galbraith, Port of Long Beach, Port of Seattle, Pollution, Environmental Groups, Teamsters Union, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California, Low Wages, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Workers Compensation, Greenhouse Gases, Port of Newark, Port of Oakland, Medicare, American Trucking Associations, Los Angeles News
James P. Hoffa

I hate to think we've become a country that has lost the concept of public purpose, a country that allows corporations to poison the people who live nearby. But apparently they're too much for the trucking industry.

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Thomas Frank: GOP Treating Health Insurers Like 'Panda Bears' That 'Need Our Nurturing'

wsj.com | THOMAS FRANK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Predator State, Thomas Frank, Chuck Grassley, James Galbraith, Health Insurers, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Insurance Panda Bears, GOP Panda Bears, Grassley Panda Bears, Thomas Frank Health Care Reform, Politics News

In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading lis...

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Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intelligence-Squared, Obama Stimulus Plan, Mark Zandi, Economic Stimulus Package, Allan Meltzer, James Galbraith, Steve Rattner, Financial Crisis, Obama Economy, Lawrence Mishel, Eliot Spitzer, Video, Business News

Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week. ...

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We Could Get the Third Stimulus Wrong

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reagan, Fiscal Relief, James Galbraith, General Revenue Sharing, Stephanie Kelton, Stimulus, States, Nixon, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, John Judis, Business News
Harry Moroz

The need for federal aid for states is indisputable. But there are better ways to target stimulus funds than with a grant program like General Revenue Sharing.

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Ryan Grim

Romer Seems To Break With Geithner On Cause Of Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Geithner, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, James Galbraith, Stephanie Cutter, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Chris Dodd, Charles Schumer, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Christina Romer, Christina Romer Obama, Tim Geithner, Christina Romer Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Timothy Geithner, Citigroup, Politics News

Christina Romer, at a speech at the Brookings Institution Monday afternoon, appeared to give support to critics of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

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Stiglitz on War Cost, Economic Outlook

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Stiglitz Iraq, James Galbraith, Economy, Lawrence Lindsey, Texas, Bailout, New York City, Eps, Gordon Brown, Orange County, John Kenneth Galbraith, Phil Gramm, Cost of War, Economists for Peace and Security, Tarp, Texas Observer, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

conomics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz spoke Friday at a fundraiser for Economists for Peace and Security (EPS), which was created to study the "full costs of war and conflict."

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Penny Pritzker, Adam Posen, Alan Murray, James Galbraith, George Soros, Doug & Heidi Rediker, Leo Hindery, Eric Schmidt, Richard Parsons, Tom Gallagher, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Economic Team, Warren Buffet, Kevin Phillips, William Daley, William Donaldson, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Roel Campos, William Bonvillian, Jeffrey Sachs, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Reich, Antonio Villaraigosa, Joseph Biden, Charlene Barshefsky, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Robert Rubin, Austan Goolsbee, David Bonior, Economic Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Bernard Schwartz, Jason Furhman, Sheila Bair, Anne Mulcahy, Roger Ferguson, Clyde Prestowitz, Sherle Schwenninger, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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