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Tag Archives: Paul Krugman
Binders full of lies
The topic of Paul Krugman’s Friday column was Mitt Romney’s failure to propose a credible jobs plan to bring down the unemployment rate. The upshot of it was that Romney is far less serious about creating jobs than Barack Obama, … Continue reading
Scalia — joker with a mean streak
Paul Krugman wrote a good column yesterday about Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court’s chief buffoon, but a reader’s response to the column was even better: When Justice Scalia compared requiring health insurance to requiring people to buy broccoli, something … Continue reading
Posted in Great Depression, Great Recession, history
Tagged Antonin Scalia, Enlightenment, joker, New Deal, Paul Krugman
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Serfs don’t need no schoolin’
Many politicians and business leaders these days think the public education system is overvalued. After all, you don’t need to read The Great Gatsby to operate a power mower. You don’t have to know the atomic weight of carbon to … Continue reading
Did Obama not get it?
Why wasn’t job creation the president’s No. 1 priority when he took office? Why didn’t he make a serious, steady effort to get the real economy back on track? Did he really think the bailed-out banks — the banks that … Continue reading
Posted in campaign finance reform, Congress, economic collapse, finance reform bill, Goldman Sachs, Great Recession, mid-term elections, Obama, Politics, The New Depression, unemployment, Wall Street
Tagged Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Ron Suskind, "Confidence Men", public investment, stimulus
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‘Balanced’ reporting? That’ll be the day
Mitt Romney recently told Time magazine that “25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I’ll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs.” Both statements are flat-out lies, … Continue reading
Debunking Mitt’s most recent big lie
Here’s how the corporate media works: The well known double-talker Mitt Romney makes dubious statements meant to undermine another candidate. Reporters write stories that leave Mitt’s statements unchallenged. Readers are left with the impression that Mitt is stating facts. It … Continue reading
On lies and the lying liars quoted in the NYT
I was going to post some comments on a New York Times story in which Wall Street types were asked to comment on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thankfully, NYT columnist Paul Krugman beat me to it: On Saturday The … Continue reading
Media’s ‘cult of balance’ drags it to the right
Interesting blog yesterday by Paul Krugman, edgier than most of his op-ed columns, sparked by his gloomy conclusion that “the cult of balance, of centrism” is hurting the country more than the cult of right-wing loonies pushing for default on … Continue reading
