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Tag Archives: paul krugman
They All End Up In A Ditch In This World Of Fools And Knaves
Paul Krugman, on This Week, explaining the ascent of Newt in the wake of the series of short-lived GOP frontrunners Trump, Perry, and Cain: “I have a structural hypothesis here,” Krugman told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour Sunday. “You have a Republican ideology, which … Continue reading
Zero Data To Support “Regulatory Uncertainty” Talking Point
Lawrence Mishel wrote a detailed debunking of the right-wing talking point that “uncertainty” is plaguing our businesses, who are apparently refusing to invest because they’re so scared of Obama’s socialism. Here, he summarizes his argument, and reviews the response from … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged conservatives, economics, paul krugman, regulatory uncertainty, republicans
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Facts Have No Meaning, And Money Is King
We’ve discussed the perils of centrism a time or two before. Dean Baker finds David Brooks engaging in quintessentially Brooksian false equivalence: David Brooks is really upset, we may have a lost decade because he is sitting there being right, standing … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged centrism, david brooks, dean baker, economics, john cole, paul krugman, stimulus
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Paul Krugman Pictures David Brooks In A Hot Tub
In his latest post: I was struck by a passage in David Brooks’s column today: But, over the years, government has grown and undermined these virtues. Wall Street financiers no longer have to behave prudently because they know government will bail them … Continue reading
We Who Fail To Learn From History
Paul Krugman, Nov. 2008: A decade ago, when I tried to make sense of Japan’s predicament, I used a simple, unrealistic model to ask what we really know about the relationship between the money supply and the price level. We normally say … Continue reading
You’re Supposed To Sit On Your Ass And Nod At Stupid Things
Well, Paul Krugman is obviously a big fan of the blog, because he’s yet again channeled what we’ve been saying. From PYM the other day: rule #1 of MSM punditry is that critiquing the choreography and possible electoral consequences & … Continue reading
Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the elephant
There is still no agreement on the debt ceiling, and it is harder and harder to see how this crisis will be resolved. Contrary to popular perception, authorizing an increase in the debt ceiling is not an invitation to spend … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged Dostoevsky, paul krugman, republicans, The Book of Luke, The Possessed
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Paul Krugman’s Questionable Judgment
As noted immediately below, everyone who this morning was working to elect Newt Gingrich the next President of the United States has now quit to find other things to do. Newt himself has now issued a statement on the matter, … Continue reading
Emotion Over Expertise
Paul Krugman notes the deep emotional reaction of some Bush Jr. officials to the success of Pres. Obama’s efforts to find Osama bin Laden: Once in a while I mention, in passing, that the Bush administration saw torturing people as … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged john yoo, marc theissen, Osama Bin Laden, paul krugman, politics, republicans, torture
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This Is The Way Cultures Change: Not With A Bang, But With Dance Numbers
Someone writing during the 1990s financial crisis in East Asian wrote that we should expect to see an ever-greater share of output there because, “after all, most people are Asian.” We should expect more contemporary cultural influence from Asia as … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged bollywood, film, hollywood, india, islam, middle east, movies, paul krugman
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Omnibus Paul Ryan Post
Paul Ryan rolled out his budget proposal yesterday. Here’s a rough first look at the direction it would take the country, the mechanics of the plan, and the public discussion about it so far. WHAT THE PLAN WOULD DO His … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged aei, budget, deficit, economics, heritage foundation, medicaid, medicare, new york times, paul krugman, paul ryan, politics, republicans, wsj
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We Have Met the Enemy…
Krugman can’t come out and say that he can’t stand David Brooks for being wrong about everything all the time, of course, but, well… David Brooks: The president walked away from the Simpson-Bowles package. … But the forces of reform have … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events, Politics
Tagged david brooks, new york times, paul krugman, paul ryan, punditry, republicans, wrong about everything
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