PAUL KRUGMAN
PAUL KRUGMAN: Austerity didn’t, doesn’t and won’t work 
Today, I’d like to talk about the frantic effort to find some example, somewhere, of austerity policies that succeeded. For the advocates of fiscal austerity — the austerians — made promises as well as threats: austerity, they claimed, would both avert crisis and lead to prosperity.
By Paul Krugman , February 02, 2013
PAUL KRUGMAN: Debt-limit canyon marks GOP’s road to ruin
The reality is that our two major political parties are engaged in a fierce struggle over the future shape of American society. Democrats want to preserve Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and add to them a universal guarantee of essential health care. Republicans want to roll all of that back, making room for drastically lower taxes on the wealthy. Yes, it’s essentially a class war.
By Paul Krugman , January 06, 2013
PAUL KRUGMAN: Break rather than accept GOP extremists’ power
A few years back, there was a boom in poker television — shows in which you got to watch the betting and bluffing of expert card players. Since then, viewers seem to have lost interest.
But I have a suggestion: Instead of featuring poker experts, why not have a show featuring poker incompetents — people who fold when they have a strong hand or don’t know how to quit while they’re ahead?
By Paul Krugman , December 23, 2012
PAUL KRUGMAN: Beware Republican Party’s death throes
We are not having a debt crisis. No, what we’re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a 30-year road.
By Paul Krugman , December 16, 2012
PAUL KRUGMAN: Right-wing rhetoric creates ‘climate of hate’
It’s true that the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally troubled. But that doesn’t mean that his act can or should be treated as an isolated event, having nothing to do with the national climate.
By Paul Krugman , January 11, 2011
COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN: The Texas model? That’s no answer at all
These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.
Wait — Texas? Wasn’t Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered?
By Paul Krugman , January 09, 2011
Blame under-reach, not over-reach by Obama
Democrats, declared Evan Bayh in an Op-Ed article on Wednesday in The Times, “overreached by focusing on health care rather than job creation during a severe recession.”
By Paul Krugman , November 06, 2010
Why America shouldn’t lose its basic government functions
The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.
By Paul Krugman , August 10, 2010
Media, Washington fall for Ryan plan
WASHINGTON — One depressing aspect of American politics is the susceptibility of the political and media establishment to charlatans. You might have thought, given past experience, that D.C. insiders would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans.
By Paul Krugman , August 07, 2010
COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN: Budget hawks swoop down on wrong prey
What’s the economic logic behind the government’s moves? The answer, as far as I can tell, is that there isn’t any. Press German officials to explain why they need to impose austerity on a depressed economy, and you get rationales that don’t add up. Point this out, and they come up with different rationales, which also don’t add up.
June 20, 2010
COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN: An oil-soaked phoenix may rise
Maybe, just maybe, the disaster will help reverse environmentalism’s long political slide — a slide largely caused by our very success in alleviating highly visible pollution. If so, there may be a small silver lining to a very dark cloud.
By Paul Krugman , May 04, 2010
PAUL KRUGMAN COLUMN: Weak response threatens Euro
If European leaders don’t start acting much more forcefully, providing Greece with enough help to avoid the worst, a chain reaction that starts with a Greek default and ends up wreaking much wider havoc looks all too possible.
By Paul Krugman , May 02, 2010
COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN: How America is — and is not — like Greece
The debt crisis in Greece is approaching the point of no return. As prospects for a rescue plan seem to be fading, largely thanks to German stubbornness, nervous investors have driven interest rates on Greek government bonds sky-high, sharply raising the country’s borrowing costs. This will push Greece even deeper into debt, further undermining confidence.
By New York Times , April 11, 2010
PAUL KRUGMAN COLUMN: Forget size; regulate what banks do
Breaking up big banks wouldn’t really solve our problems because it’s perfectly possible to have a financial crisis that mainly takes the form of a run on smaller institutions.
By Paul Krugman , April 04, 2010
COLUMNIST PAUL KRUGMAN: GOP’s extremism becomes very big vice
If you care about America’s future, you can’t be happy as extremists take full control of one of our two great political parties.
By Paul Krugman , March 27, 2010
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