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Obama will listen to Krugman
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman criticized the President-elect's economic plan in his piece today, "The Obama Gap." "[M]r. Obama’s prescription doesn’t live up to his diagnosis. The economic plan he’s offering isn’t as strong as his language about ...
Obama: ‘If Paul Krugman has a good idea…then we’re going to do it.’
Obama: ‘If Paul Krugman has a good idea…then we’re going to do it.’
thinkprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Obama: ‘If Paul Krugman has a good idea…then we’re going ...
Media Matters: Conservative media peddle a raw deal
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 ... (more) Media Matters: Conservative media peddle a raw deal
In which I disagree with Paul Krugman
crookedtimber.org — As James Surowiecki points out here , my views on what’s entailed in bank nationalisation differ significantly from those of Paul Krugman . [1] Krugman, like quite a few other advocates of nationalisation, has in mind models like the Resolution ... (more) In which I disagree with Paul Krugman
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Rachel Maddow Meets with President-elect Obama
The Latest on Air America — ... up with a few more names: CNN's Roland Martin, The Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson, and USA Today's DeWayne Wickham. Paul Krugman, who Obama's willing to hear out on economic issues , was invited, but didn't attend.

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