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Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 6, 2018
We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things). But up to this point that hasn't mattered much. He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor, and that recovery had already lifted the U.S. economy to the point whereÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 6, 2018
Professor Krugman argues, for the obvious reason that basing government decisions on falsehoods is bound to lead to bad results: “Listening to a garrulous old guy spout nonsense is annoying in the best of circumstances. But when this particular old guy controls the world's largest military, nukes included,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 5, 2018
Imagine that you're listening to some garrulous old guy in a diner, telling you what's wrong with the world — which mainly involves how we're being victimized and taken advantage of by foreigners. You hear him out; after all, there have been approximately 17,000 news analyses telling us that garrulous oldÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
February 28, 2018
Paul Krugman looks back on the past 20 years of macroeconomic policy and finds that his 1998 paper was more prescient than he or anyone could have imagined. Back then, many observers assumed that central bankers, particularly those at the Bank of Japan, need only increase the monetary base toÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
February 27, 2018
A funny thing is happening on the American scene: a powerful upwelling of decency. Suddenly, it seems as if the worst lack all conviction, while the best are filled with a passionate intensity. We don't yet know whether this will translate into political change. But we may be in the midst of a transformativeÃâà...
New York Times
February 26, 2018
A funny thing is happening on the American scene: a powerful upwelling of decency. Suddenly, it seems as if the worst lack all conviction, while the best are filled with a passionate intensity. We don't yet know whether this will translate into political change. But we may be in the midst of a transformativeÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 23, 2018
Wednesday, after listening to the heart-rending stories of those who lost children and friends in the Parkland school shooting — while holding a cue card with empathetic-sounding phrases — Donald Trump proposed arming schoolteachers. It says something about the state of our national discourse thatÃâà...
Handelsblatt Global Edition
February 20, 2018
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, chatted with Andreas Kluth, editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global, and Ellen Frauenknecht of broadcaster ARD. On the euro crisis, he "got the economics right, but the politics wrong." On Trump, he urges Europeans: "Stand up for values" and "don't normalize".
AlterNet
December 31, 1999
Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) came under fire for celebrating the $1.50 weekly raise a public school secretary stands to gain from the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Ryan's outrageous statement is even more preposterous if you actually crunch the numbers. As Paul Krugman writes in hisÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 31, 1999
So you go out for dinner with a wealthy acquaintance. “I'll take care of everything,” he says, and orders you a hamburger. Then he orders himself an expensive steak and a bottle of wine, which he doesn't share. And when the waiter comes with the check, he points at you and says, “Charge it to his creditÃâà...
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