Paul Krugman is annoyed by the hippie-punching at the start of Ken Rogoff's Project Syndicate column in which Ken lands blows on Paul "Groovy Beads, Man!" Krugman and Martin "Flower Power" Wolf. Me? I think as long as Ken does not consign you to the Gamma Quadrant you are ahead. Show More Summary
Ben McLannahan: BoJ holds amid signs of economy ‘picking up’ | Paul Krugman: The point, I think, is that you can simultaneously fault the Fed and economists in general for failing to see this crisis coming, and ridicule the hedge fund guys for giving advice right now that is both ludicrous and dangerous. Show More Summary
Mark Thoma: Economist's View: Inequality and Economic Growth: Paul Krugman and Tony Atkinson | Dylan Matthews: Senior poverty is much worse than you think | THE humble shipping container is a powerful antidote to economic pessimism and fears of slowing innovation. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: Financial Repression | Fernando Duarte and Carlo Rosa: Are Stocks Cheap? A Review of the Evidence | Gavin Kennedy: Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Keynes on Laissez-Faire | Brad DeLong: Notes on Carmen Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia: "The Liquidation of Government Debt" | Alan M. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: >The Mythical 70s: It’s actually even worse than Matt [O'Brien] says. For the 1970s such people remember as a cautionary tale bears little resemblance to the 1970s that actually happened. In elite mythology, the origins...Show More Summary
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? [Michael Kinsley is really confused:](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113220/paul-krugmans-misguided-moral-crusade-against-austerity) >People who favor austerity are “austerians,” a clever...Show More Summary
The Ten Top Economic Weblogs, According to Technorati: [Paul Krugman](http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) [Economix](http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com) [Felix Salmon](http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/) [Wonkblog](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/)...Show More Summary
Ken Rogoff: [Comment on Paul Krugman: "It's Baaack: Japan's Slump and the Returnof the LiquidityTrap":](http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/1998%202/1998b_bpea_krugman_dominquez_rogoff.pdf) >Kenneth Rogoff: This is a truly...Show More Summary
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Ryan Cooper: >Clive Crook Doesn’t Understand Paul Krugman or Liberals Generally: Crook… made the quite specific claim that Krugman was using the 2009 stimulus for partisan ends…. >>Krugman and his admirers were at the forefront in casting discussion of the stimulus in left vs. Show More Summary
Matthew Yglesias (2005): The Lies, The Lies, Andrew Sullivan's Lies: "As we know, and as this letter writer to his site reminds us, Andrew Sullivan has been a pretty consistent proponent of the view that Paul Krugman is some sort of liar. Show More Summary
My comment on: Now that is infinitely better! But do note you are no longer claiming that Paul Krugman trying to radicalize the Obama administration's position on "the stimulus" in the winter of 2008-2009. You are, instead, making aShow More Summary
Paul Krugman observes: >Not Everything Is Political: Clive Crook demands that I engage respectfully with reasonable people on the other side, but somehow fails to offer even one example of such a person. Not long ago Crook was offering Paul Ryan as an exemplar of serious, honest conservatism, while I was shrilly declaring Ryan a con man. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: >Naive Fiscal Cynicism: Expansionary austerity has been refuted… even the IMF says that short-run multipliers are big… 90 percent red line… was… fuzzy math… bond vigilantes remain invisible… the confidence fairy refuses to make an appearance… austerian economics has imploded…. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: >Keynes, Keynesians, the Long Run, and Fiscal Policy - NYTimes.com: One dead giveaway that someone pretending to be an authority on economics is in fact faking it is misuse of the famous Keynes line about the long run. Here’s the actual quote: >>But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. Show More Summary
Hey! Clive Crook! Here is one more reason why Paul Krugman is tired of trying to reason with you people Matthew Yglesias: >Keynesianism today: Start by stating the argument correctly: This Alex Tabarrok post on growth in the face of fiscal austerity annoyed me as did his co-blogger Tyler Cowen chiming in to say Tabarrok had "nailed it"... Show More Summary
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Clive Crook is unhappy because Paul Krugman does not take him and his ilk of opinions-of-shape-of-earth-differites seriously: >Paul Krugman’s Proud War on Fools, Knaves and Lunatics: I think Krugman’s been right about U.S. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: Evidence and Economic Policy: "Henry Blodget says that the economic debate is over; the austerians have lost and whatshisname has won. And it’s definitely true that in sheer intellectual terms, this is looking like an epic rout. Show More Summary
Paul Krugman (2012): Economics in the Crisis: >To say the obvious: we’re now in the fourth year of a truly nightmarish economic crisis. I like to think that I was more prepared than most for the possibility that such a thing might happen;...Show More Summary
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Because the Washington Post continues to pay hacks like Robert Samuelson. Paul Krugman does the intellectual garbage collection: >Academic Non-Obscurity: Robert Samuelson tries to minimize...Show More Summary
Paul Krugman: >Reinhart-Rogoff, Continued: About the slow growth/debt connection: I’ve done a quick and dirty mini-RR for the period 1950-2007 (starting 1950 because that’s where the Total Economy Database starts), focusing only on the G7. Show More Summary