March 14, 2010 – 10:24 pm
I suppose, as a fan of Rep. Paul Ryan, that I should be concerned that Krugman is going on, and on, and on about how bad the Ryan Fiscal Roadmap is; this is his latest post on the subject.
But then, I recall that Krugman doesn’t even seem to understand what he has written in his own economics textbook, and that he has a tendency to grossly mislead his readers when it comes to discussing the ideas of people Krugman doesn’t like. Remembering all of this, I think that I will put more stock in Ryan’s arguments.
February 15, 2010 – 10:05 am
There’s an ever-shifting balance between the goals of forcing society’s commitments to be borne more-or-less exclusively by those with high incomes, and the imperative of not destroying the economic incentives that produce income in the first place. The need to find this balance is a universal problem, not specific to 21st century America.
By Francis Cianfrocca
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Posted in Features, Market
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Debt, deficits, economy, EU, European Union, Eurozone, Greece, Japan, VAT
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November 21, 2009 – 1:12 pm
Yes, it is as exorbitant as many of us have imagined:
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Budget Deficit, Congress, David Broder, Democrats, Economic Ignorance, economy, Harry Reid, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, National Debt, Obama Administration
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November 18, 2009 – 3:16 pm
The President informs us that he is worried about rising U.S. deficits. Too much of this, we are warned, and we will suffer a double-dip recession.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Budget Deficits, Economic Ignorance, economy, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, Keynesian Stimulus, National Debt, Obama Administration, The Failure Of Keynesian Stimulus
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November 13, 2009 – 3:05 pm
It took long enough, but the White House has finally decided to focus on deficit-reduction. The question is whether this newfound tendency towards frugality has come in time:
October 6, 2009 – 12:26 am
Behold supporting evidence.
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Budget Deficit, Dishonesty, Economic Ignorance, economy, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, History, Medicare, National Debt, Partisan Hackery, Paul Krugman, Republicans, Ronald Reagan
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October 1, 2009 – 1:37 am
Didn’t something . . . happen around 1980? Can’t quite remember . . . something whose name begins with the letter “S”?
September 28, 2009 – 9:40 pm
The chances remain good–in my opinion–that the dollar will remain the international reserve currency for many decades to come. As a consequence, I tend to dismiss concerns that the dollar will eventually be replaced or supplanted by either the euro or the renminbi.
August 25, 2009 – 1:31 pm
But . . . well . . . recall this piece, which I wrote immediately after a White House press conference back in March, and the following excerpt contained within it:
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Budget Deficit, Economic Ignorance, economy, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, National Debt, Obama Administration, Unemployment
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