yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/21/2008
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Nice work as the Nobel Prize winning economist takes on the conservative columnist. Will argues that New Deal policies made the Depression worse. Krugman retorts that the New Deal was working nicely until FDR’s concern with balanced budgets and fiscal restraint created a new recession. ...
online.wsj.com - 11/29/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Paul Krugman of the New York Times has
been on the attack lately in regard to the...
New Deal. His new book "The Return of Depression Economics," emphasizes the importance of New Deal-style spending. He has said the trouble with the New Deal was that it ...
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The Krugman Recipe for Depression
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 11/29/2008
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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com —
Earlier today, I saw Greg "Bush economist" Mankiw
was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment...
. My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for the economics profession in general, and Bush economists Greg Mankiw ...
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Hoocoodanode?
thinkprogress.org - 11/23/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Economists on both the left and right broadly
agree that the need for stimulative government spending is...
necessary to prevent a further collapse of the global economic system — just as the New Deal and the deficit spending of World War II ...
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George Will: ‘The First New Deal Didn’t Work’
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It’s FDR’s Fault
Comments from Left Field —
... Sunday, November 16: Paul Krugman and Robert Reich challenge George Will’s claim, on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, “that New Deal policies made the Depression worse.” ...
George Will: ‘The First New Deal Didn’t Work’
Think Progress —
Economists on both the left and right broadly agree that the need for stimulative government spending is necessary to prevent a further collapse of the global economic system — just as the New Deal and the deficit spending of World War II restored the health of the global economy in the last century.
This morning on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will echoed the false right-wing meme that FDR’s New Deal policies made the Depression worse:
Before we go into a new New Deal, can we ...
I’ll Take a Double Helping of That “Failed” New Deal
Comments from Left Field —
George Will is still carping about how the “first New Deal” didn’t work [emphasis in original]:
This morning on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will echoed the false right-wing meme that FDR’s New Deal policies made the Depression worse:
Before we go into a new New Deal, can we just acknowledge that the first New Deal didn’t work?
As Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman wrote recently in the New York Times, “There’s a whole intellectual industry, ...
George Will: ?The First New Deal Didn?t Work?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... and the deficit spending of World War II restored the health of the global economy in the last century. This morning on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will echoed the false right-wing ...
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