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Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of the most recent meeting of its open market committee — the group…
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is an American economist and journalist who received the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in economic geography and in identifying international trade patterns. He was also known for his op-ed column in The New York Times.
What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines…
The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also…
Dear Mr. President: Like FDR three-quarters of a century ago, you’re taking charge at a moment when all the old certainties…
Last week President-elect Barack Obama was asked to respond to critics who say that his stimulus plan won’t do enough to help…
No modern American president would repeat the fiscal mistake of 1932, in which the federal government tried to balance its budget in…
The revelation that Bernard Madoff – brilliant investor (or so almost everyone thought), philanthropist, pillar of the community – was a phony…
A few months ago I found myself at a meeting of economists and finance officials, discussing – what else? – the crisis.…
Everyone’s talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political dominance…
PRINCETON, New Jersey: Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; FDR is in. Still, how much guidance does…