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Paul Krugman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: February 28
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These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is always right - to such an extent that they refuse to believe even the most overwhelming scientific evidence if it seems to suggest a justification for government action.
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Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.
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What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.
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The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.
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Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be armed and dangerous without being ostracized but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.
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Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.
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This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
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[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.
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The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
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But where will the Fed find another bubble?
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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I really think that people have to think safety taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.
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And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
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Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.
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I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.
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Economics is not a morality play.
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America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
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I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
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