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Will v. Krugman on the Depression

Comments from Left Field found this 11/21/2008 on yglesias.thinkprogress.org

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. ...