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Paul Krugman (born February 28, 1953), an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since 1999, is the "author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes."

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Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Faces His Anzio

Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Obama’s Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an issue in Tuesday’s elections, it worked in Democrats’ favor. But while health care ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, International Herald Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Jon Corzine,  Christopher J. Christie

You Idiots Ridiculing Obama For "Jobs Saved" Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves

That entire third paragraph made absolutely no sense. For a guy that won a Nobel prize in economics (allegedly still given on merits) Krugman is a horrible writer and can't make a single point clearly, except that he will go to any lengths to carry ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, The Business Insider,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

Recession strategy: Too little of a good thing

3.5 percent. If that happened, unemployment would eventually start falling -- but very, very slowly. The experience of the Clinton era, when the economy grew at an average rate of 3.7 percent for eight years (did you know that?) suggests that at ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES, Salt Lake Tribune,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

Op-Ed Columnist: Too Little of a Good Thing

The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is working just about the way textbook macroeconomics said it would. But that’s also the bad news because the same textbook analysis says that the stimulus ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, International Herald Tribune,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Mark Zandi,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party

At 3.5% Growth, Economy Won't Recover Until President Palin's Second Term

...If we take 3rd quarter growth to be more or less equivalent to average Clinton-era growth, even after 8 years of growth at that rate we’d only expect unemployment to have fallen from the current 9.8% to a still uncomfortably high 6.3%. It would take ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, Silicon Alley Insider,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Krugman,  New York Times Company

Op-Ed Columnist: The Defining Moment

O.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform. Share your thoughts about the health care debate. Past efforts to give Americans what citizens of every other advanced nation already have guaranteed access to essential care ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, International Herald Tribune,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Congressional Budget Office,  Nancy Pelosi,  Barack Obama,  Joe Lieberman

Op-Ed Columnist: After Reform Passes

So, how well will health reform work after it passes? There’s a part of me that can’t believe I’m asking that question. After all, serious health reform has long seemed like an impossible dream. And it could yet go all wrong. But the teabaggers have ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, International Herald Tribune,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Rube Goldberg,  Barack Obama

Paul Krugman: China's a currency manipulator. Now, it's not OK

dollar slid in value, especially against the euro, so that by keeping the yuan/dollar rate fixed, Chinese officials were, in effect, devaluing their currency against everyone else's. Meanwhile, productivity in China's export industries soared; combined ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, TwinCities.com,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Krugman,  Ben Bernanke,  Federal Reserve,  United States Department of the Treasury,  U.S. Congress

Op-Ed Columnist: The Chinese Disconnect

Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn’t specifically criticize China’s outrageous currency policy. But ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, International Herald Tribune,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ben Bernanke,  Federal Reserve,  United States Department of the Treasury,  U.S. Congress

Paul Krugman: Gambling with other people's money

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. OK, maybe not literally the worst, but definitely bad. And the contrast between the immense good fortune of a few and the continuing suffering of all too many boded ill for the future. I'm talking, ...

From PAUL KRUGMAN, TwinCities.com,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bank of America,  Paul Krugman,  Goldman Sachs,  Citigroup,  Lawrence Summers

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