Paul Krugman

Created-or-saved ? You think Jon Stewart would have a ball with that or what? We have yet to see the column by Paul Krugman in which he explains how many jobs are created-or-saved when government prints money and tries to spread it all...

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Last week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials...

In this article: American International Group, Wall Street, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Financial crisis, and Timothy Geithner

In this article: China, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Mattel, TGT, Dell, and Costco

Although the yuan has appreciated 20% against the dollar over the last several years, Obama and Strauss-Kahn both agree with Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist, who wrote on Nov. 15 that China severely...

In this article: China, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Mattel, Target, Dell, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Silicon Valley -- What does Paul Krugman really think about the threat of climate change and what action does he recommend the governments of US and China take? As President Obama tours China this week and presses President Hu Jintao to...

In this article: Climate change, China, Barack Obama, Tax, Carbon, Hu Jintao, and Silicon Valley

New York Times: Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether the U.S. government is doing the right things to fight unemployment.

In this article: Unemployment, Germany, Ben S. Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Barack Obama, Washington, New York, New York, and Suicide

Consider, for a moment, a tale of two countries. Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result - but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than...

In this article: Germany, Unemployment, United States, Recession, Economic Policy Institute, and Lawrence Summers

Paul Krugman: Right-wingers' paranoia imperils America's future On Nov. 5, there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we've grown accustomed to, including large...

In this article: Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Richard Hofstadter, Glenn Beck, and New York

Politics Krugman on the Bachman/Beck/Palin Right Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM But something snapped last year. Conservatives had long believed that history was on their side, so the G.O.P. establishment could, in...

In this article: G.O.P., Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, White House, and New York

...underneath the comment you replied to View Comments: - + Poboy I'm a Fan of Poboy I'm a fan of this user 21 fans permalink Krugman's concluding paragraph frames the debate: I agree that move on has only limited influence on the...

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