Stories by Paul Krugman
Are the Dems willing to learn something from the disaster that has overtaken the U.S. economy, and get behind financial reform?
Posted on Dec 16, 2009, Source: The New York Times
For those who think the government shouldn't be involved in health care, they already are. And you should be grateful.
Posted on Aug 1, 2009, Source: The New York Times
Fundamental health reform is now within reach. Obama and activists need to get those last "centrists" on board.
Posted on Jul 7, 2009, Source: The New York Times
The Obama administration thinks a little regulatory tinkering will take Wall Street back to its glory days of fraudulent finance.
Posted on Mar 27, 2009, Source: The New York Times
President Obama's new budget represents a clean split, and a lot of promise for future progressive programs.
Posted on Feb 28, 2009, Source: The New York Times
We're in the midst of a crisis that bears an eerie resemblance to the onset of the Depression. How and when will it all end?
Posted on Feb 21, 2009, Source: The New York Times
What do you call someone who deprives millions of decent health care, but offers a $15k bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? Centrist.
Posted on Feb 10, 2009, Source: The New York Times
Obama's team is talking a whole new economic voodoo: the belief that by performing elaborate financial rituals we can keep dead banks walking.
Posted on Jan 20, 2009, Source: The New York Times
So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime.
Posted on Jan 19, 2009, Source: The New York Times
Will we act swiftly and boldly enough to stop it from happening?
Posted on Jan 7, 2009, Source: The New York Times
Whatever the new administration does, we're in for months, perhaps even a year, of economic hell. After that, things should get better.
Posted on Dec 23, 2008, Source: The New York Times
The capitulation of the American consumer is coming at a particularly bad time. But it's no use whining. What we need is a solution.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008, Source: The New York Times
Partisan politics are unlikely to end any time soon -- not as long as the GOP believes that when it comes to politics, idiocy is the best policy.
Posted on Aug 9, 2008, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
Hillary's plan would insure nearly twice as many people as Obama's.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008, Source: The New York Times
The U.S. labor movement isn't dying a natural death: corporations and politicians are helping.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007, Source: The New York Times
An infusion of cash won't turn the debt crisis around.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
The lending crisis was wholly predictable; how did we end up here anyway?
Posted on Nov 27, 2007, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
It appears that many influential people in this country have learned nothing from the last five years.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: The New York Times
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: The Nation
