Ronald Reagan

...for its "outrageous" currency policy. He was followed late last week by Martin Feldstein, a former chief economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, who made a similar argument in the pages of the Financial Times. Both noted that the RMB-dollar peg is...

In this article: China, Barack Obama, Beijing, Ben Bernanke, U.S., Financial crisis, Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, and Recession

freejack Says: Reagan deserves all the credit Krugman give him, but there is a change made under Clinton that I'm surprised no one talks about because I think it fed the CDO market and housing speculation in general. The Taxpayer Relief...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Bill Clinton, Ideology, Tax, Inflation, FDR, and George W. Bush

...a choice," said Mr. Feldstein. From 1982 to 1984, Mr. Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Mr. Reagan, taking with him a young Mr. Summers as one of his senior aides. It was a period of economic crisis,...

In this article: Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, David Romer, Princeton University, Congressional Budget Office, Ben Bernanke, and FBI

...by one cent without the approval of both houses of Congress first. And by the way, if Ronald Reagan was so horrible, why did Krugman ever agree to work for the man? Johnny Longorso| 9.30.09 @ 5:01PM The figures in the PDF show...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, George W Bush, Tax, Reason, and Nobel Prize

Krugman: We can thank Ronald Reagan for this mess In 1982, Ronald Reagan signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act, declaring: "This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Unemployment, U.S., and China

...to do so. Krugman uses the actions of Reagan (who is seen not only as the supreme figure of Republicanism, but also as the greatest president ever by many on the right) as the measuring post for GOP race politics. Krugman is...

In this article: Republican Party, Paul Krugman, David Brooks, Mississippi, Bob Herbert, and Philadelphia

...failed? " Krugman has been trying to prove Reagan's policies failed since 1992, when he persuaded a reporter from the New York Times to write that most growth in incomes from 1977 to 1989 went to the top 1 percent. Defining the...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Recession, Barack Obama, The Federal Reserve, and Economic history

...since 1980 than it ever did before (read: because of Reagan). Today, he continues his debunking rampage on two fronts: economic productivity since 1980 and third-world financing. On productivity, Krugman responds to commenters who assert...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Bernie Sanders, Brad DeLong, Unemployment, and Huffington Post

...than silence. Krugman and Herbert failed to mention that after supposedly wooing white supremacists with encrypted Klan rhetoric, Reagan flew from Mississippi to Manhattan to address the Urban League the next day. He promoted the idea...

In this article: Ronald Wilson Reagan, Paul Krugman, Jimmy Carter, Mississippi, Federalism, Tax, Urban League, National Review, and Michael Schwerner