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Krugman’s Latest Economic Opinion
We have been needing more people, people of some importance, to say something about the economy besides how bad it is. Mind you, no matter how good the recovery is; the negatives will still flow ...
Paul Krugman’s “Goldilocks” economy is likely to prove “transitory”
PPI and CPI preview: why Paul Krugman’s “Goldilocks” economy is likely to prove “transitory” – by New Deal democrat Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday. Every now and then, real l...
Is the “second great age of globalization” about to end?
This comes by way of New Deal Democrat who was doing some research and ran across a not so recent Krugman article via the late Economist’s View blog. Krugman’s prescient words of things to co...
Politics and the Pandemic: Why I Think Paul Krugman Is Wrong
Politics and the Pandemic: Why I Think Paul Krugman Is Wrong Krugman has a piece in the New York Times today that offers an explanation for why Republicans oppose every measure—vaccination,...
Paul Krugman: The cruelty of a Trump Christmas Medicaid, Work Reqmts, and Food Stamps Edition
This sets the tone in Michigan as the richest Republican controlled County of Livingston continues its attack on women along with the State of Michigan House and Senate using a petition to pass a...
Paul Krugman radio interview regarding current conditions
Just thought this would be of interest to our readers. This was aired yesterday, 8/15/19 on: The Take Away, NPR. (About 12 minutes long.) Click the arrow to hear The post Paul Krugman rad...
The Democratic Establishment Thinks the Lesson of This Elec...rial Midwest Is to Switch Sides in the Culture Wars. I Guess.
The race to be the next head of the Democratic National Committee has quickly turned into a proxy fight between liberals and establishment types about where the party needs to go in the wake of ...
Hey, Midwestern and Rust Belt Blue-Collar Voters: How’s THIS Workin’ Out for Ya So Far?
UPDATE: LOL. ____ President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has ...
Krugman expresses his hope … and mine
Paul Krugman Verified account@paulkrugman My hope is that soon I can start writing, finally, about what a sensible person in the WH should do, and have anyone myself incl care 4/ Amen. There a...
Several thoughts about Paul Krugman’s NYT column today �...ibility that Putin had the emails planted on Weiner’s laptop
Paul Krugman’s column today titled “Working the Refs,” which I linked to this morning in this post, is absolutely wonderful for its account of the breadth of what amounts to largely success...
Here’s what’s missing from reports that “he FCC just ...ajority of board members, from which the chairman is selected.
Federal regulators have approved unprecedented new rules to ensure broadband providers do not abuse their customers’ app usage and browsing history, mobile location data and other sensitiv...
Jeeps Made w/American Steel by Union Workers in Toledo
CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton entered the final phase of her campaign on Friday, working to ensure a victory that is decisive enough to earn a mandate for her presidency and a surge of voters to ...
Really disappointed that Clinton last night didn’t mentio...llace’s absurd the-stimulus-led-to-the-slow-growth assertion
After the first debate, there was some criticism of Clinton that she came off as “too prepared”—a semantic contrast to Trump’s lack of preparation—and then criticism of the criticism: H...
Paul Krugman Gets Berned. Er, Burned.
In a speech to a Morgan Stanley group on April 18, 2013, WikiHillary praised the SimpsonBowles deficit reduction plan, which included reforming the tax code to increase investment and entrepren...
Okay, so how many of the 53 percent of voters who say they ...da have any idea what that policy agenda IS? Just wonderin’.
But those same polls don’t suggest doom and gloom for down-ballot Republicans just yet. And in fact, there’s real reason for GOP optimism that Trump won’t ruin their year completely. … F...
“Why would you want to be associated with a party that’s so awful?”
This morning I overheard a part of a conversation between two 30-ish old high school friends, both from career-military families; their high school was on a military base. One is a disabled Mar...
Why does Krugman hold Clinton and her campaign harmless for . . .
the public’s cluelessness about Trump’s policy agenda vs. her own? PHILADELPHIA — On Wednesday night, the Harvard Institute of Politics pulled together a focus group of eight millennial vo...
Would this lengthy statement by Clinton about millennials, make millenials MORE, rather than LESS, likely to vote for her?
Here’s the article, by Yahoo News’ Michael Walsh, titled “#basementdwellers — The actual words and spin on Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Bernie Sanders supporters.” Clinton should r...
What Clinton and her surrogates need to get across to millennials, racial minorities and union members
Coming soon: President Barack Obama, who’s expected to campaign at least twice before Election Day. First Lady Michelle Obama — more popular than her husband — will likely visit Florida as...
No, Mr. Trump, nothing made you smart. To illustrate: You think a VAT tax is a trade tariff.
Nick Confessore Reporter 9:20 PM ET Just to pull back for a second here, you can see a part of Clinton’s strategy. She is not campaigning against him as a crazy man. She is campaigning against ...
Hillary Clinton was NOT right to separate Trump from the GOP on racism, xenophobia, and sheer meanness.*
She was wrong to separate him from the GOP on fiscal and regulatory policy and on court and administrative-agency appointees. It wasn’t a package deal, or rather, it should not have been. She c...
The Bizarre and Manipulative Crusade by Centrist NYT Column...nton to Adopt the Republican Fiscal and Regulatory Agenda –
All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent’s b...
The New World ORDER
Paul Krugman has a terrific column today titled “Donald Trump, the Siberian Candidate,” but really he suggests that Trump is the Manchurian candidate. Krugman suggests that Trump is actually ...
Paul Waldman conflates two entirely different things about ... about one of those things, but clearly wrong about the other.
belief that Trump’s success is primarily a media failure has a parallel in the way conservatives have always explained their own defeats. We would have won, they insist, if only the media hadn...
What Bernie Sanders is doing to help Hillary Clinton
One charge against Sanders by the likes of Paul Krugman that I just could not abide—there were others, but this post is about this one—was that while Clinton was actively soliciting campaign ...
There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 pr...But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.
We got to the end in June, and I did not put down conditions. I didn’t say, ‘you know what, if Senator Obama does X, Y, and Z, maybe I’ll support him.’ I said, ‘I’m supporting Senator...
Denmark, the VAT Tax and Paul Krugman
So Sanders and Clinton are arguing about soda taxes — Clinton for, as a way to raise money for good stuff while discouraging self-destructive behavior, Sanders against, because regressive. I ...
Krugman The Clairvoyant
has a negative view of Bernie Sanders “Why I Haven’t Felt the Bern “ which links to his column on insulting Dixie. The post is brief and a bit odd — Krugman criticizes Sanders for: �...
A question looming before the debate last night was: Which ...l provision would she repeat in the debate? The answer: Both.
As for Clinton herself, her bandwagon-jumping nature is a big reason why so many people dislike her. But in this instance there was the additional element of dishonesty: she knew that Sanders r...
Paul Krugman Retracts a Key Part of Last Friday’s ‘Sand...a.k.a., too-big-to-fail) financial institutions. Good for him.
Which brings us to Snoopy, who has, for reasons I don’t fully understand, long been the emblem of the insurance giant MetLife. “At the end of 2014 the regulators designated MetLife, whose bus...
Why did Paul Krugman and the Washington Post editorial boar...ons themselves that would determine the method of paring down?
As Dean Baker and several (mostly) alternative-media and hobbyist bloggers—including actual experts on Dodd-Frank and on financial-institution governance—have noted since the New York Daily N...
The ACTUAL Likely Reason That Clinton Won Ohio by 15 Points...Numbers for Kasich Against Trump. (This matters. Maybe a lot.)
Okay, so Paul Krugman blogged yesterday that the Clinton campaign’s numbers guru, Joel Benenson, claims that Clinton lopsidedly won the Ohio primary because: Ohioans took a hard look at Senator...
GAG. (And Paul Krugman is just so, so mystified that so man...ives support Sanders. Be mystified no longer, dear professor.)
Dan Crawford gave me the news this morning before I’d already learned of it. He emailed me with the subject title: “Merrick Garland…here we go!” He linked, without comment, to the NYT art...
The Key to Defeating Trump in the General Election Is in a ...’s Debate: Angry Americans want big tax cuts for the wealthy
People come with tremendous passion and love for their country. … When they see what’s going on in this country, they have anger that’s unbelievable. They have anger. They love this countr...
Harry and Louise Now Support Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan. With Good Reason.
In the Comments thread today to my post yesterday titled “Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll announce it just as soon as the Republican...
Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Ins...oon as the Republican presidential candidates tell us theirs.
Paul Krugman has been incessantly complaining about some Sanders supporters who accuse him and other high-profile Sanders critics, especially academics, of conflict of interest. The Sanders suppo...
Democrats and Progressives need to accept the likelihood th...And they need to seriously consider what that actually means.
— Clinton promised to go hard after Wall Street. The former Secretary of State faced criticism in a different department: her failure to release transcripts of paid speeches given to Gold...
Paul Krugman Hits It Home
And let me say that the great thing about a progressive agenda is that it doesn’t require big growth promises to make it work, because the elements of that agenda are good things in their own r...
I finally agree with (much of) a Krugman criticism of the S...(And why I’m glad he made the criticism in the way he did.)
Bernie Sanders hates the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which held that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited sums advocating for their preferred ca...
Two Must-Read Columns in the NYT Today
Nicholas Kristof’s and Linda Greenhouse’s. They’re on different subjects but, in my opinion, part and parcel of the same thing. ____ ADDENDUM: Reader Sandi and I exchanged these comments ...
Sighhhh.
Sarah Kliff has a very helpful account of Vermont’s attempt to create a state-level single-payer health care system, and why it failed. It’s a bit like the old joke about the farmer, asked ...
https://angrybearblog.com/2016/01/sighhhh#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sighhhh
Clinton’s Bizarre Attack on Her Husband’s 1992 Credentials to Be Elected Commander in Chief
The Clinton campaign is set to air this new, minute-long ad in Iowa and New Hampshire that has the feel of a closing argument: — The post Clinton’s Bizarre Attack on Her Husband’s 1992 ...
The little problem with Clinton’s message that Krugman do...claim that only taxes bears negatively against “incomes”.
there are serious questions about how we’re going to pay for what we want to see our country do. And, I’m the only candidate standing here tonight who has said I will not raise taxes on the m...
Why Do So Many Wealthy Democrats Think The Only Money That ... The Hoi Polloi Is The Money They Must Pay To The Government?
Second, single-payer would require a lot of additional tax revenue — and we would be talking about taxes on the middle class, not just the wealthy. It’s true that higher taxes would be offset...
Did Clinton Really Agree That Denmark Is an Inspiring Example for Democrats to Cite?
Denmark isn’t a middle-class, capitalist, entrepreneurial country? Because it has universal healthcare, free college, free day care, and guaranteed family and medical leave? Really, Secreta...
Why does Clinton keep getting away with saying that gun man...of their products. Someone should ask her to name one that is.
Senator Sanders did vote five times against the Brady Bill. Since it was passed, more than 2 million prohibited purchases have been prevented. He also did vote, as he said, for this immunity prov...
Why does Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan th... GEO) reduce their prices, mass incarceration should continue?
“People often talk about the electorate moving left,” said Clinton senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan. “I think it’s more that the electorate is just getting more practical. For Hillary ...
The ‘Brook Hill Dog’ Lithograph–With Update (albeit not on the subject of the original post)
Some of AB’s regular readers might have picked up on the fact that I’m obsessed with animal rescue. (Dan Crawford sure has!) And since AB is mostly an economics/fiscal-policy blog, it pr...
Why are so many Dem-leaning pundits so profoundly clueless?
Today, Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who has been talking about challenging Clinton from the left, was repeatedly asked by reporters to comment on Clinton’s emails, and he re...
Scott Brown Solves the Mystery of What All Those Mega-Corporations Are Doing With Their Record Profits
They’re spending it on lawyers! I’m not kidding. Brown told a 27-year-old Fidelity Investments retirement specialist that big corporations can’t afford to hire people because they’re sp...
The Confidence Fairy v. John Roberts (circa Apr. 2, 2014)
UPDATE: Wow. That tree limb I walked far out onto in my post below turned out to be sturdy after all. A postscript is added below. Update posted 10/9 at 10:45 p.m. ____ There is no right more ...
Dear Greg Sargent: “Re your Morning Plum reference to Krugman’s column today”
Update appended below. —- After a two-and-a-half-month hiatus from regular blogging here—most of my few posts this summer related to my passion about animal rescue and animal welfare—I’m ...
John Boehner Says the Obama Economy Has Eliminated Involunt...at’s what he said. The Dems should use this in campaign ads.
John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they don’t feel like working: “This idea that has been born, maybe out of th...
Greece, Greece, I Tell You!
It’s not every day that a law professor has his book quoted by the Supreme Court, and so the University of Baltimore‘s Michael I. Meyerson was understandably intrigued when his 2012 work abo...
Krugman: If you don’t like the mandate, why not support single payer?
Bill Gardner at The Incidental Economist offers a rather decorous, mild reply to the people making . I’d put it more forcefully: the pre-ACA system drastically restricted many people’s freedo...
Scott Brown Comes Out for a New Hampshire State Healthcare-Insurance Public Option. In the Name of Freedom. Cool!**
I’ve written here on AB, extensively now, about the invidious co-opting of the word “freedom” by the political far-right. I’ve addressed this mainly in the context of the conservative ...
Paul Ryan and Scott Walker Come Out for Repeal of Federal C...ming soon: Talking polar bears pleading for more oil drilling.
Oh, my — not only was Paul Ryan’s hunger=dignity speech appalling on the merits, the anecdote he used to make his point was fake — a distortion of a real story with a completely differe...
Paul Krugman vs. … um … me.
No, no; of course, I don’t mean that Paul Krugman has expressly disputed something I wrote here on AB. Or that he has ever read a post of mine. Or that he knows that I exist. Those latter...
Note to Christie: Sleights of Hand Work Only If They Go Unnoticed.
Chris Christie’s political success in New Jersey was based on the perception that his personal style — which involved lots of yelling at people — was a sign of his governing effectiveness. ...
Paul Krugman is wrong; Obama DOES need to discuss Keynesian economics in his State of the Union address. Here’s why.
Paul Krugman is my hero. I credit him–him alone, really–with ending, finally, the Peterson Foundation’s capture of almost all of the mainstream news media as their PR outfit. Just as I ...
John Quiggin is, as usual, Brilliant.
John Quiggin provides an excellent discussion of macroeconomics. It is much too good to summarize. Just click the link and read. Paul Krugman is also (as usual) brilliant. In particular, I fear h...
Marco Rubio Says Farm Subsidies and Hurricane-Disaster Funds Should Not Be Federal Programs. Really.
For a senator who likes to hold himself out as the future of the Republican brand, Marco Rubio has come up with a remarkably retrograde contribution to the party’s chorus of phony empathy for t...
The White House Finally Takes an Actual STAND on Something .... And It’s the Ethical Position in the Controversy, to Boot!
This isn’t trivial. One of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever met was a waggly-tailed white pit bull that a neighbor of a friend of mine found roaming the street. As soon as the sweetie saw you ...
Ireland, Krugman, Kenneth Thomas
Paul Krugman points to Angry Bear Kenneth Thomas in this piece in the New York Times on the use of Ireland as somehow a success story of what are failed policies regarding employment: Ireland Is ...
I find it Imp – ossible to disagree with Krugman
Recently, I was pleased to note a disagreement between Paul Krugman and Dean Baker. Finally, I hoped, a chance to prove I am not a knee jerk acolyte of Krugman. Sadly I found I agreed with Kr...
Why, Yes! Of Course! The Voters Will Vote to End Social Sec...tions and the DOJ Issued Sweeping Subpoenas of AP Phone Lines!
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? It began yesterday morning, with a Politico article by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, and an accompanying video by Allen, suggesting improper actions of the ...
Pulitzer-Caliber Photo Journalism …
Forget that being-worth-a-thousand-words thing. The picture and its caption in this Krugman blog post are … priceless. (I just about fell out of my chair when I saw that. And, five minutes ...
National Journal Editorial Director* Ron Fournier Missed Ei...sed the Separation-of-Powers Thing. He Should Now Get a Tutor.
It’s hard to know who will end up taking the biggest political hit if the latest Washington-induced crisis moves from theoretical to real — but the answer may well lie in which side can get t...
Marco Rubio Needs to Travel More. Seriously.
Mr. President, I still live in the same working-class neighborhood I grew up in. My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. They’re worke...
Paul Krugman Steps on Marco Rubio’s Parade. And Kills My Entertainment.
Just a quick observation: for the past couple of days I’ve been seeing in a lot of places, including comments on this blog, the assertion that federal spending has risen 37 percent under Obama ...
The People-as-Props That Obama SHOULD Use During His Speech...t: John Boehner and Joe Barton. And They’re Already Invited!
Speaker John Boehner @SpeakerBoehner House GOP has voted to replace the president’s sequester twice. Here’s why, courtesy @whitehouse: http://j.mp/WzhNgY #obamaquester — Twitter, h/t Poli...
Stories That Will Continue to Get Far Too Little Attention As Long As Obama Allows Them To.
* Don’t forget about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Paul Krugman has the goods on a story that’s getting far too little attention: In filibustering Richard Cordray, Obama’s choic...
Joe Scarborough on the Deficit
Pro Growth Liberal at Econospeak also takes Joe Scarborough to task on Krugman and Keynes: Joe Scarborough on the Deficit After his interview with Paul Krugman this morning Joe Scarborough wrote...
Paul Krugman, Angry Bear, and Jazzbumpa
Update: Noahpinion takes on the same in How to win arguments by pretending to be stupid. The comments section offers other points of view. Ron T. aka Jazzbumpa received an unusual thank you fro...
How To Debate Paul Krugman
On Saturday Mish wrote a really awful article with those words in it’s title. The article borrows these words and includes a quote from an even more awful article by Austrian school economist a...
Brian Williams Thinks Raising the Debt Ceiling Means Increa...s, Walter Cronkite, and Edward R. Murrow, Where Art Thou? —
I watched NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams last night. Big Mistake. Big mistake. Because now I’m really confused. I was pretty darn sure until then that “raising the debt ceiling” m...
What Dana Milbank’s Stunningly Awful Column Today Reveals About the Washington Press Corps –
Okay. There’s no way to do justice to Washington Post centerist columnist Dana Milbank’s column today about Obama’s “presser” yesterday by just summarizing it or quoting a sentence or...
Eh. I’ve changed my mind.
I want to remove the post I posted this afternoon called “Harry Reid Throws Down the Gauntlet In Front of … Obama. Hurray.” I think Reid has done exactly that, and I think he’ll play ...
Harry Reid Throws Down the Gauntlet In Front of … Obama. Hurray.
Obama pushed forward despite strong reservations expressed by top congressional Democrats — especially Reid — who privately described it as a “bad deal” that would increase Republican lev...
Paul Krugman changes his mind on impacts of automation
In the past discussions at Angry Bear on the impacts automation might have on our lives, and the economics involved, gathered comments such as “You are a neo luddite”. As if widespread u...
At long last, have you left no sense of decency? (The most important fact that Obama can point to tomorrow night)
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch, head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCa...
A Kiss From a Used-Car Salesman—and why it’s important to tie Romney’s “47%” comment directly to his Orwellian lies
In a terrific article published on Friday, Slate’s John Dickerson asks: Which Mitt Romney DoYou Trust Most? Is he a cold-heartedconservative or a moderate Republican from Massachusetts? How can...
Spain. Please, Mr. Obama, talk about Spain. Please.
ROMNEY: Look, the revenue I get is by more people working, getting higher pay, paying more taxes. That’s how we get growth and how we balance the budget. But the idea of taxing people more, put...
Debt is a drug
Paul Krugman writes on debt and austerity some more, and a link to Steve Roth’s post It’s private debt from December 2011 is mentioned in comments near the start of that thread. Steve’s pos...
Debt, Recession, and That Ol’ Devil Denominator
Krugman recently presented this graph, showing household debt as a percentage of GDP. and made this comment. Second, a dramatic rise in household debt, which many of us now believe lies at the he...
Unethical Commentary, Newsweek Edition
I don’t usually pass along a Krugman piece, but the ACA is familiar territory for AB. By Paul Krugman, The New York Times21 August 12here are multiple errors and misrepresentations in Niall F...
Tax cuts and economic growth
Of course see Mike Kimel’s Presimetrics, familiar to most AB readers, and posts at Angry Bear can be listed here Paul Krugman write on the meme: Dooh Nibor Update: And the Romney people respond...
Romney’s VERY Private Equity (with UPDATE)
By now there’s been a lot of discussion in the media about the Vanity Fair and Associated Press exposés of Romney’s and his wife’s offshore bank accounts, to the limited extent that inform...
Paul Krugman speaks Monday night…
From the Boston Globe comes this interview with Paul Krugman on what he does in between writing and speaking. Just for fun. From the bully pulpit of his New York Times column, Paul Krugman has be...
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Graph: A Graphical Response to Paul Krugman on the Effect QE1 and QE2
by Mike Kimel They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Graph: A Graphical Response to Paul Krugman on the Effect QE1 and QE2 I’ve taken a lot of flak for critiquing two posts by Paul Krugman in two p...
What is the Question? Responding to Paul Krugman
by Mike Kimel What is the Question? Responding to Paul Krugman Paul Krugman has been kind enough to respond to my post which in turn was commenting on an earlier post he had written. As I noted i...
Panel Discussion with: Krugman, Sachs, Phelps, Soros
Just wanted to let everyone know about a presentation that aired on Cspan’s Book TV. It is a 2 hour panel discussion titles: Global Economy: Crisis Without End. It was held 2/17/12. Clic...
Krugman, Roubini, and the Eurozone
Krugman highlights but provides no link to Nouriel Roubini’s address to the 2006 Davos meeting (direct link to Economonitors here). What I would say is that this incident exemplified something ...
Random Notes on Economics, Music, and Death–and a Bleg
Excess Rents Datapoint of the Day: Since the NYT doesn’t pay Paul Krugman for his blog posts, why should reading those count as part of the “20 free articles” non-subscribers are allowed? I...
Is the the policy for the ‘Long Depression’ in place?
Paul Krugman is direct and to the point this morning: Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as...
Told Him So
Robert Waldmann told Paul Krugman so About 21 months ago Paul Krugman had a question lower and middle-income Americans would be substantially better off under the Obama plan. But where is the mon...
https://angrybearblog.com/2010/03/told-him-so#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=told-him-so
Not the Cheeriest Way to Start the Day: Bernanke Part 1 of 2
It’s bad enough to violate Brad DeLong’s first rule (which, I hasten to rationalize, was posted when DeLong himself was disagreeing). It’s worse when the opposition to Krugman is coming fro...
Get Ready to Throw Momma from the Train
It’s coming closer: Once the tax expires, those inheriting estates after Dec. 31 will have to pay capital gains taxes on any asset sold. The cost will be based on the original price of the prop...
I Tend to Describe this as "Unwarranted Optimism"
The Shrill One (tm – Brad DeLong) as Optimist: The result, then, will be high unemployment leading into the 2010 elections, and corresponding Democratic losses. These losses will be worse becau...
Seasonal Posting: NYTFail, Part 2
First, David Leonhardt argued that this recession was good for workers. Now, Floyd Norris apparently has decided to mix and match data. (I wonder if the fact many NYT employees who are looking at...