Stories by Paul Krugman
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be?
Posted on Jul 15, 2008
We could -- and still might -- do a lot worse than a rerun of the Clinton years. But Mr. Obama’s most fervent supporters expect much more.
Posted on Jul 1, 2008
Mr. McCain's approach to health care is based on the fantasy that the magic of the marketplace can produce cheap health care for everyone.
Posted on Apr 6, 2008
Hillary's plan would insure nearly twice as many people as Obama's.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008
The U.S. labor movement isn't dying a natural death: corporations and politicians are helping.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007
An infusion of cash won't turn the debt crisis around.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
Nothing Obama has said suggests that he appreciates the bitterness of the battles he will have to fight if he does become president.
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
The lending crisis was wholly predictable; how did we end up here anyway?
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
Rudy Giuliani has a habit of saying things that are demonstrably untrue. And the American people have a right to know that.
Posted on Nov 5, 2007
The housing mess shows that the crisis of corporate governance, which made headlines in the early years of this decade, never went away.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007
Iraq commander Gen. Petraeus will testify next week on the "progress" in Iraq. Congress owes it to the public to expose the Pentagon's cooked-up numbers on the recent death count.
Posted on Sep 7, 2007
It appears that many influential people in this country have learned nothing from the last five years.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007
Conservative opposition to giving every child in this country access to health care is, in a fundamental sense, un-American.
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
The real-estate bubble of recent years, like the stock bubble of the late 1990s, was both caused and fed by widespread malfeasance. Now, those same bad actors want to be rescued by the "nanny state."
Posted on Aug 19, 2007
What's been happening in financial markets over the past few days is something that truly scares monetary economists: liquidity has dried up.
Posted on Aug 10, 2007
What kind of philosophy says that it's O.K. to subsidize insurance companies, but not to provide health care to children?
Posted on Aug 1, 2007
Economist and
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explains in simple terms how the American economy went from having the world's most dynamic middle class to being on the verge of a rich-poor state in only 30 years.
Posted on Mar 9, 2007
Our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality, while denouncing anyone who complains--or even points out what is happening -- as a practitioner of "class warfare."
Posted on Dec 23, 2003
