youtube.com - 12/23/2008
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Dr Krugman discusses the current financial crisis and "Depression Economics." Recorded December 19, 2008.
politico.com - 12/22/2008
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politico.com —
Yes. When master economist, columnist, and plain ole
intellectual (so few left these days) Paul Krugman was...
asked this morning* about whether or not he was "in communications" with the Obama administration regarding the economy, he declared: "Yes... ...
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Krugman in contact with the Obama team?
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Kudos To Krugman. He Saw This Coming. And He Sees a Way Out.
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman Paul Krugman, bless his heart, calls them like he sees them. He gets it, and he invariably helps regular folks "get it." That's pretty good since most investors, spenders, earners, and borrowers are just plain scared of money and the topic of economics. Nobody likes to think about it, which is what gets so many people into a mess of trouble. It's easier to say, "Let somebody us deal with it." Trouble is, guys like Bernard Madoff are happy to oblige. When the first round of bailouts and bankruptcies hit this fall -- before the world at large had come to recognize just how bad things were -- the tv networks all pulled Paul Krugman in as ...
Random Notes, or, More Posts I Don't Have to Write
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Greg Mankiw presents Yet Another Reason to regret skipping the AEA this year, though somehow the word "intentional" was left out of the description. Stan Collender, of all people, does the job I wished someone would do on Martin Feldstein's WSJ op-ed. I may have beaten him by a day in calling it out, but there's nothing so perfect as Collender's conclusion: Finally, something that's not in the Feldstein piece: dollar for dollar, military spending doesn't provide as much an economic return as domestic spending. Building an extra tank or missle that then sits idle because it's not needed provides a one-time boost to the economy. ...
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CNN Poll: Nine out of ten say economy's poor —
CNN Political Ticker 12/23/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll indicates that more than nine out of ten of Americans think that economic conditions in the country are poor, with the economy remaining far and away the nation's top concern.
In a CNN-Opinion Research ...
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