Major New Bailout Good Move But Won't Stop Recession
Steps recommended by economists to ease the credit markets may put western governments and taxpayers in serious financial trouble and are not likely to head off a severe, prolonged recession.
Steps recommended by economists to ease the credit markets may put western governments and taxpayers in serious financial trouble and are not likely to head off a severe, prolonged recession.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business
Beyond its uncertainty, the Administration also appears as disingenuous as it did on Iraq. Five years ago, officials cried wolf about weapons of mass destruction that were never found.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Update (11:42PM): Krugman offers lukewarm support for the plan in his new column, but warns that the plan isn't going to fix all our financial problem...
Eugene Jarecki | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
I encourage McCain and, for that matter, anyone in Washington who's drunk the Gipper's free-market fundamentalist and gun-toting expansionist Kool-Aid, to spend a bit more time reading Eisenhower.
Marshall Grossman | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
No public investment without public equity. To do otherwise is simply to continue and greatly exacerbate the practice of privatizing profit while socializing risk.
Henry Blodget | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business
Hank Paulson's plan will soon be rammed through Congress. Too bad, because the plan is flawed and taxpayers are likely to get hosed, and a much simpler plan would save the system without socking it to taxpayers.
Harold Pollack | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Given the events of the past two weeks, Senator McCain may have discovered the shortest path to national health insurance.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media
Instead of recoiling from the media fact-checking, the Republicans have adopted a post-press approach and simply don't care what the press does or says about their honesty.
Steve Kettmann | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
The notion that there's any serious doubt over the meaning of the Bush Doctrine is as credible as the notion that there is any serious doubt in the scientific community on the basic reality of global warming.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
At some point it becomes hard to blame the traditional media for its improper coverage. Clearly, the McCain/Palin lies have not gone unnoticed -- yet, there is barely a blip in the polls.
NY Times | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Did you hear about how Barack Obama wants to have sex education in kindergarten, and called Sarah Palin a pig? Did you hear about how Ms. Palin told C...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
It's important for the Obama campaign to take McCain's seemingly ridiculous attacks seriously, even though Americans need to take charge of their citizenship responsibilities and become more informed on the issues.
Ari Melber | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Three years ago, web activists were undeniable outcasts in Democratic politics and no bar outside of Berkeley could spell "netroots." Now, the movement has an open line to every player in the party.
Tony Sachs | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.
Harold Pollack | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
As Monday's column shows, when Krugman writes about Obama, the great economist seems to lose his moorings.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the...
Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
For Krugman to keep saying that the voters of Florida voted "in good faith" is a lie. Were they not informed that the Democratic Party was not going to count their votes?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business
According to Krugman the high oil prices as we now know them are a legitimate reflection of market forces. Simple as that. Economics 101. Oh, for the good old days.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
A few days ago, the Obama campaign released an ad defending his opposition to Hillary Clinton's gas tax holiday. The Clinton campaign immediately chal...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman takes John McCain to task over his lack of "straight talk" on tax policies. Krugman equates McCain's policies...
NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
fter Barack Obama's defeat in Pennsylvania, David Axelrod, his campaign manager, brushed it off: "Nothing has changed tonight in the basic physics of ...
Ben Cohen | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Financial globalization has failed to deliver the goods, and the poor are paying a huge price for the ideological stubbornness and greed of neoconservatives.
NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Will Barack Obama's now famous "bitter" quote turn out to have been a big deal politically? Frankly, I have no idea. But here's a different question:...
Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home
Despite the nastiness directed at him, however, Obama should be thanking Bill Clinton for one thing: his campaign nomination is unthinkable without him.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business