thinkprogress.org - 1/9/2009
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been a frequent critic of President-elect Obama. During the primary season, he faulted Obama for saying there is a Social Security “ crisis ,” refusing to adopt a mandate in his health care proposals, and not fighting enough on “ ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/14/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Lots of emails from readers asking about the
chat with the president-elect this morning. It was totally
off the record and I'm a stickler for those rules. I can say, however, the following: it's hard to express the relief I feel that this man will be ...
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Sorry, No Details
mediamatters.org - 1/11/2009
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mediamatters.org —
The conservative punditocracy that has spent the past
eight years propping up a president who gave us
an illegitimate war and leaves us with an almost unimaginably bad economic crisis apparently grows weary of defending this spectacular failure of a ...
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Media Matters: Conservative media peddle a raw deal
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 1/14/2009
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
From Paul Krugman's website, a commenter asks an
incisive question : Is it just me, or is
this argument for government spending starting to sound just a bit like the Democratic version of the Laffer Curve? i.e. more borrowing means more tax revenue, ...
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The Laffer curve of the Democrats
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Obama to Krugman: Show Me The Workable Ideas!
Matthew Yglesias —
... Like everyone in the blogosphere, I’ve been following Paul Krugman’s concerns that the Obama stimulus plan isn’t big enough. Today, Obama said he’s willing to listen to any ideas Krugman has about good projects on which to spend money: ...
Milton Friedman lives (and other stories)
The Sideshow —
... And I'm not sure why I am supposed to be reassured by the idea that Obama is "listening" to Paul Krugman when this is how it's phrased: ...
What Avedon said
Corrente —
Here:
I'm not sure why I am supposed to be reassured by the idea that Obama is "listening" to Paul Krugman when this is how it's phrased:
If Paul Krugman has a good idea, in terms of how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy, then we're going to do it. If somebody has an idea for a tax cut that is better than a tax cut we've proposed, we will embrace it. So, you know, one of the things that I think I'm trying to communicate in this process is for everybody to get past the habit that sometimes occurs ...
Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Obama
Brilliant at Breakfast —
Last week you said that "If Paul Krugman has a good idea, in terms of how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy, then we’re going to do it." ...
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It's True, But You Shouldn't Say It
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A Stimulus for Tomorrow, part 2
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/28/2009 — by von
The largest part of the proposed stimulus is appropriations -- aka, government spending. But, as noted below , this part of the stimulus isn't much of a stimulus. It can't have nearly as much of a stimulus effect as the other two parts ...
Paul Krugman
rising-hegemon.blogspot.com 10/17/2008 — Sci-Fi Geek: A great moment on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer tonight, when new Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Krugman was asked by Lehrer what inspired him to become an economist. Krugman replied it was reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series ...
Krugman: US Auto Industry To Disappear--What Does This Mean???
openleft.com 12/8/2008 — AP is reporting (h/t ObscureName in a Quick Hits comment):
Krugman: US auto industry will probably disappear
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. ...
Paul Krugman's horror story
swamppolitics.com 12/23/2008 — by Frank James
Paul Krugman is one of the smartest, most entertaining economists alive which explains why he may the best known too,
The New York Times columnist and Princeton University professor appeared at the National Press Club in ...
All stimulus, all the time
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 2/3/2009 — Paul Krugman clarifies his point about temporary versus permanent spending: Tyler's latest on temporary versus permanent government consumption clarifies what the confusion is over my very simple point .
I don't think Tyler understands what I (and ...
Improving the Stimulus Debate
thenextright.com 1/26/2009 — Paul Krugman is deeply frustrating. In today's New York Times op-ed , Krugman makes two important points about intellectual dishonesty - or perhaps mere intellectual hackery - among Republicans, but then engages in dishonesty/hackery of his ...
Wilkinson v. Krugman
corner.nationalreview.com 2/10/2009 — Stephen posted the quote from Barro earlier, but I think Will Wilkinson deserves to be quoted at greater length:
The deeper problem, I think, is that the textbook theory doesn't have any politics in it. In macroeconomics textbooks, government is a ...
Powell: 'Not looking for a job' —
First Read 1/9/2009
From NBC's John HollandFormer Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell said at a news conference he has not been offered and is not looking for a job with the new administration.
"I am not looking for a job," Powell ...
Obama comes down against BCS —
CNN Political Ticker 1/9/2009
Florida beat Oklahoma in Thursdays BCS Championship game. Obama favors a playoff system instead.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Details of President-elect Barack Obama’s multi-billion dollar economic stimulus plan might still be murky, but his position on the ...
Pat Buchanan: Obama's choice — FDR or Reagan —
msnbc.com: Politics 1/9/2009
Political analyst Pat Buchanan: Barack Obama, it is said, will inherit the worst times since the Great Depression. Not to minimize the crisis we are in, but we need a little perspective here. Obama and the Democrats are taking a historic gamble, not ...
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