Paul Krugman on Huffington Post

Paul Krugman Surrenders To Washington

2013-06-17T16:25:43Z

BLOOMBERG VIEW

Paul Krugman's column last week was depressing. I don't mean depressing in the way some people find Krugman depressing -- "there goe...

Read more: Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman Washington, Progressive Tax Code, Tax Code, Business News

Jared Bernstein: Is This a Realistic Time for a 'Grand Bargain?'

2013-06-17T12:10:23Z

As the fiscal picture has improved, both through actions we've taken already and the improving economy, it's much tougher to make the hair-on-fire urgency case that drove this benighted debate in recent years.

Read more: Grand Bargain, Debt Grand Bargain, Deficit Grand Bargain, Spending Cuts, Debt Negotiations, Tax Revenues, Deficit Reduction, Paul Krugman, Politics News

Adam Kirk Edgerton: The Turnaround Vultures

2013-06-13T13:00:12Z

The vulture reformers -- who have proven adept at raising corporate money and implementing market-based reform through complete mayoral control -- have forgotten that teaching boils down to the interpersonal.

Read more: Education, Bailout, Greece, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, Imf, Paul Krugman, Education Reform, Michelle Rhee, Studentsfirst, Impact News

Caroline Presno: Is It Hip to Be an Intellectual Again? Hell Yeah!

2013-06-12T17:35:40Z

The postmodern intellectual is also more closely associated with business and sales than in the past. Today, everyone markets themselves and everything is a business. Even academic institutions resemble business institutions.

Read more: Greta Gerwig, Jon Stewart, The Big Bang Theory, Madonna, Oprah, New York Times, Twitter, Paul Krugman, Fareed Zakaria, Pope, Robert F. Kennedy, Charlie Rose, Politics News

Krugman: NSA Surveillance State 'On The Authoritarian Side'

2013-06-09T12:16:21Z

With the rise in technology, Americans should expect that they're being monitored by the government, but the surveillance state we’re living in has ...

Read more: Nsa, Nsa Surveillance Scandal, Government Spying, Video, Paul Krugman Nsa Surveillance, Nsa Surveillance, Paul Krugman Nsa, Paul Krugman Government Spying, Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman Patriot Act, Business News

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Trash Talking Economists

2013-06-06T23:10:00Z

The economics profession has been injected with enormous sums of money -- in the form of chairs, endowments, think tanks, advisory roles, consulting gigs, and God knows what else -- to push it further to the right.

Read more: Obamacare Rate Shock, Affordable Care Act, Paul Krugman, Shelon Whitehouse, Tyler Cowen, Avik Roy, Marginal Revolution, Aaron Carroll, Civility, Austin Frakt, Mike Konczal, Politics News

Ian Reifowitz: New Deal Denier Amity Shlaes: "1920s Income Inequality Didn't Hurt Middle-Class"

2013-06-03T14:43:20Z

Having ten years to fully implement their vision, these Republicans did great for middle-class Americans, right? Again, only if we pretend that history ended in October 1929.

Read more: Keynesian Economics, Paul Krugman, Gdp, Economics, Republicans, Great Depression, Amity Shlaes, Politics News

Krugman: Debunked Pro-Austerity Research 'Did A Lot Of Damage'

2013-06-02T13:11:26Z

Having a public spat with your colleagues and former classmates over the best way to fix the global economy can be “very unpleasant,” according to...

Read more: Paul-Krugman-Reinhart-Rogoff, Reinhart Rogoff Mistakes, Reinhart Rogoff Austerity Research Errors, Video, Paul Krugman Reinhart Rogoff Paper, Reinhart Rogoff Response, Reinhart Rogoff Research Errors, Paul Krugman, Reinhart Rogoff Austerity, Reinhart Rogoff Austerity Research, Business News

Harlan Green: A 'Greater' Recession, if Fed QE Ends Too Soon

2013-05-30T14:32:41Z

The stock and bond markets are sinking because of Fed Chairman Bernanke's seemingly offhand remark that the Fed could slow down its QE purchases of se...

Read more: Paul Krugman, Gdp Growth, Gdp, Oecd, Great Recession, Great Depression, Nber, National Bureau of Economic Research, Business News

Steven Conn: Like a Bad Cough: Why Austerity Economics Lingers

2013-05-28T16:47:17Z

Despite the disgrace in which the case for austerity economics now resides, it is unlikely that politicians and policy-makers, either in Europe or in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, will change course anytime soon.

Read more: William Graham Sumner, Economics, Social Sciences, Gilded Age, Paul Krugman, Social Darwinism, Sequestration, Adam Smith, Austerity, Business News

Jared Bernstein: The 4 Percent Inflation Target

2013-05-28T10:43:04Z

Low inflation and asset bubbles are a particularly toxic combination, and they're increasingly common.

Read more: Economic Growth, Growth, Inflation Rate, Inflation, Paul Krugman, Wages, Lawrence Ball, Business News

Authors Of Debunked Austerity Paper Lashes Out Against Paul Krugman

2013-05-26T11:39:21Z

The researchers behind a much-disputed paper on austerity are lashing out against Paul Krugman over his criticisms of the data.

In a letter posted...

Read more: Reinhart and Rogoff, Paul Krugman, Reinhart Rogoff Research, Rogoff, Reinhart Rogoff Paul Krugman, Reinhart, Reinhart Rogoff Paper, Business News

Krugman: There's 'No Room For Independent Thinking' In The Conservative Movement

2013-05-25T12:54:34Z

Holding on to the conservative label can be tough, especially if you have your own ideas that counter the mainstream, according to Paul Krugman.

T...

Read more: Paul Krugman Conservative Movement, Paul Krugman Austerity, Video, Paul-Krugman-Conservatives, Paul-Krugman-Critics, Paul-Krugman-Conservative-Economists, Paul Krugman, Business News

Harlan Green: Ben Bernanke and the Fragile Recovery

2013-05-23T11:32:39Z

We know how fragile is the U.S. economic recovery just from the past 48 hours, because both U.S. and Japanese stock prices plummeted and interest rate...

Read more: Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Japanese Recovery Assistance Center, Abenomics, Shinz? Abe, Business News

Ian Reifowitz: Hello Republicans: Japan Switches to Stimulus, Gets Growth; Europe Sticks With Austerity, Stays in Recession

2013-05-20T10:22:45Z

As Europe reminds us, it prevents recession-battered economies from growing. The alternative is to prime the economic pump by having governments engage in fiscal and monetary stimulus.

Read more: Keynesian Economics, Gdp, Economic Stimulus Package, John Maynard Keynes, Economy, Economic Crisis, European Union, Paul Krugman, Japan, Europe, Stimulus, Austerity, Politics News

Michael Kinsley Feels Your Pain, Middle Class, But Pain Makes You Beautiful

2013-05-18T09:20:18Z

The austerity policies that gripped the world in the face of the global economic downturn have not worked. Unless the intent was to make a bad situati...

Read more: Eat the Press, The-Week-in-Weltschmerz, The New Republic Austerity, Economic Crisis, Unemployment Crisis, Bad Ideas, Michael Kinsley Austerity, Media Criticism, Paul Krugman, Recession, Michael Kinsley, Austerity, Politics News

Charles Kolb: Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong

2013-05-10T17:38:12Z

Professor Krugman keeps fighting a straw-man argument. The real issue isn't a choice between stimulus and austerity. After all, we've had nearly five years of quite remarkable monetary and fiscal policy stimulus.

Read more: Quantitative Easing, Debt, Federal Reserve, Paul Krugman, David Stockman, Business News

Richard Brodsky: Austerity on the Ropes: How Krugman Is Winning the Battle and Obama Is Losing the War

2013-05-07T13:54:50Z

In comes Paul Krugman of the New York Times. Almost single-handedly he has made the case for stimulus and investment, and disemboweled the idea that spending cuts will get us out of this long, slow glide to economic oblivion.

Read more: Keynesian Economics, Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, New York State Assembly, Barack Obama, Krugman Obama Austerity, Paul Krugman Barack Obama, Politics News

Harlan Green: Austerinomics, the Anti-Growth Orthodoxy

2013-05-07T11:39:21Z

Once again, Karl Rove/GW Bush attempted to turn the clock back to the beginning of the 19th century, and we are now living with the consequences--wars and budget deficits without end. It's hard to see what form a new nationalism will take, until and unless a new Teddy Roosevelt comes along.

Read more: Karl Rove, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Joseph Stiglitz, GW Bush, Austerity, Teddy Roosevelt, New Nationalism, President William McKinley, Progressive Politics, Business News

Bill Clinton: 'Paul Krugman Is Right'

2013-05-07T10:58:51Z

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton began his appearance at Pete Peterson's annual fiscal summit Tuesday by approvingly invoking the name of t...

Read more: Krugman Clinton, Fiscal Summit, Bill Clinton, Video, Bill Clinton Deficit Summit, Bill Clinton Krugman, Bill Clinton Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman, Pete Peterson, Bill Clinton Peterson Summit, Tamron Hall, Politics News

Stan Sorscher: We Decide How to Share Gains

2013-05-02T17:39:42Z

We can rehabilitate a Social Contract that connects us. With a restored self-image, we can reverse Citizens United, rebalance our political process, and find trade policies that serve society as a whole.

Read more: Collective Bargaining, Free Trade Agreements, Social Contract, Income Inequality, Top 1 Percent, Social Movements, Citizens United, Civil Society, Productivity, Lesser America, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Unions, Business News

Bloomberg Columnist Slams Krugman

2013-05-02T14:54:51Z

BLOOMBERG VIEW:

Could I say a word about Paul Krugman? A recent blog post by the eminent economist and New York Times columnist struck me as out of...

Read more: Paul Krugman Criticism, Paul Krugman, Business News

Harlan Green: The Hunger Games Are Coming

2013-05-01T13:23:43Z

Since the 1970s, Republican economic policies have prevailed that diverted most of the fruits of prosperity to the wealthiest, so that the rest of U.S. have less to spend -- even though consumer spending drives 70 percent of economic activity.

Read more: Karl Rove, HUnger Games, GW Bush, St. Louis Federal Reserve, Paul Krugman, Darwinism, CIA World Factbook, Obama Economy, Gop Economics, Business News

Krugman: 'Maybe I Actually Am Right'

2013-04-28T13:12:38Z

Paul Krugman’s got it right when it comes to the economic crisis, says Paul Krugman.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times column...

Read more: Paul Krugman Austerity, Paul Krugman Critics, Paul Krugman Deficit Reduction, Video, Paul Krugman Ken Langone, Business News, Paul Krugman Deficit, Paul Krugman, Paul-Krugman-Deficit-Hawks, Ken Langone, Business News

Paul A. London: Conservatives Favored Deficits Before Keynes

2013-04-22T18:16:23Z

What the Chicago conservatives in 1932 said the government should do was spend aggressively on useful public works and infrastructure. There were then and are now plenty of liberal ideas that deserve harsh criticism.

Read more: American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Economy, Deficit, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Federal Budget Deficit, John Boehner, Paul Krugman, Economic Recovery, Norm Ornstein, Business, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News