Financial Times

...sum due Lewis, he just decided to bring the sum he could control down to zero. " Paul Krugman gets a nod from Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan. But it's not one that he agrees with. After discussing the global imbalances between...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Ken Lewis, Samuel Brittan, Bank of America, and Barack Obama

...and cheap loans from the Fed. A recent Financial Times story explained that this year's Wall Street profits are also padded by what is essentially insider trading with the Fed in the market for U.S. Treasuries. As Paul Krugman has rightly...

In this article: Washington, Citigroup, Barack Obama, TARP, The Fed, Wall Street, and Harry Reid

..."really sad", "depressing" and belonged "to the dark ages of economics". Using an article in The Financial Times, Mr Ferguson fired back with some insults of his own. "It is a brave or foolhardy man who picks a fight with Mr Krugman," he...

In this article: Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Felix, Henry Louis Gates, Economics, Felix the Cat, Harvard, Professor, Barack Obama, and Princeton University

...a second great depression, thanks to "Big Government". The US economy emerged from recession in the third quarter of 2009, which the Financial Times credited to the stimulus measures. Calls for the resurgence to extend further In 2009...

In this article: John Maynard Keynes, Economics, Recession, International Monetary Fund, Robert Skidelsky, James K. Galbraith, Financial crisis, Inflation, and Milton Friedman

...this a "crisis whose only real precedent is the Great Depression." The Financial Times's economic expert, Martin Wolf, called it a "proto-depression" at a Davos panel. But others demurred. Roach told me that he wouldn't consider it a...

In this article: Stephen Roach, Wen Jiabao, Robert Shiller, Davos, Unemployment, Europe, Communism, and Fascism

...macroeconomics with microeconomics hurts microeconomics as a discipline. I am not economist, but I read publications like, The Economist, and Financial Times. I've read JMK, MF, Krugman, Milton, Smith, etc. I've read solutions proposed...

In this article: Economics, Arnold Kling, Ideology, Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, Political philosophy, Library of Economics and Liberty, The Economist, and Harvard

I know any number of CEOs, entrepreneurs and even some City refuseniks who agree. But when the Financial Times runs a front-page story about City concerns that London will give in to Brussels demands for more financial regulation, as...

In this article: Labour, Gordon Brown, George Osborne, Paul Krugman, Derivative, Financial Services Authority, Rolls-Royce, London, and Ramsay MacDonald

...Free Exchange, Felix Salmon, Economics of Contempt, and Cowen. See also articles in the Financial Times (ht Conor Clarke, Calculated Risk) and the New York Post (ht Yves Smith). As far as I know, Karl Denninger is the first person to have...

In this article: FDIC, The Treasury, Tax, New York Post, and Paul Krugman

...ripples of Lehman's failure could prove impossible to contain." The New York Times, USA Today, AP run similar reports, while the Financial Times notes "some saw a good cop/bad cop act, with Mr Paulson taking a hard line on public funds while...

In this article: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Washington Mutual, Republican Party, Afghanistan, and Hillary Rodham Clinton