Krugman Obama

Krugman Slams Obama On Health Care Reform: Not Enough Audacity

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 07.26.2009 | Home


When it comes to domestic policy, there are two Barack Obamas. On one side there's Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the issues and ability to...

Krugman: Don't Give Up On Rescue That's Pulled Us Few Inches Back From Edge Of Abyss

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 07.15.2009 | Business


The debate over economic policy has taken a predictable yet ominous turn: the crisis seems to be easing, and a chorus of critics is already demanding ...

Marcus Baram

Krugman Won't Comment On Off-The-Record Dinner With Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics


Nobel-Prize-winning economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz have been persistent critics of the bailout, serving as thorns in the side of Presiden...

Krugman: 'The Obama Administration Is Dithering' On Banks

The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics


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

Krugman: 'Obama's Victory Feels Like Defeat'

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics


In the New York Times, Paul Krugman wonders why President Obama's stimulus win doesn't feel like one: By any normal political standards, this week's...

Frogs

Neil McCarthy | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics


Neil McCarthy

The GOP is telling us that the solution to our current problems is some combination of tax cuts, a spending freeze, reduction of the deficit, and the condemnation the "earmark."

Krugman: Obama Preparing More Bailouts For Bank Industry 'Bunglers'

New York Times | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Question: what happens if you lose vast amounts of other people's money? Answer: you get a big gift from the federal government -- but the president s...

Krugman Calls Obama Out For Silence On Healthcare Reform

New York Times | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catast...

Paul Krugman Letter To Obama In Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone | Paul Krugman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Dear Mr. President: Like FDR three-quarters of a century ago, you're taking charge at a moment when all the old certainties have vanished, all the co...

Sam Stein

Krugman, Reich, Take Obama Up On Stimulus Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Last week, Barack Obama let it be known that when it came to formulating a stimulus bill, all ideas were welcome -- whether they came from the bowels ...

Obama Right to Reassure Wall Street Markets With Rubinauts But Also Needs Econ Advisors Who Stand for Main Street

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics


Miles Mogulescu

We can only hope that Obama balances the smart Rubinauts whom he has picked to lead his economic team with some equally smart pro-Main Street economic minds.

Paul Krugman: Obama WILL Win -- and Then Media Will Crucify Him

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

Krugman predicte that "within three months of taking office, no, less than three months" the media would be out to get Obama, as much as they had at the high point of anti-Bill Clinton bashing.

Krugman On Mortgage Plans: Obama "Cautious," Clinton "Bold And Progressive"

New York Times | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics


New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes on the presidential candidates' mortgage crisis proposals: Barack Obama's speech on the economy on Thurs...

An Obama-Krugman Truce Over Health Care?

NYT | Paul Krugman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


I didn't watch Russert -- I almost never do -- but apparently Barack Obama has just floated the idea of imposing some penalty on people who fail to si...