Paul Krugman

“Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.”

— Paul Krugman

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

— Paul Krugman

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

— Paul Krugman

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

— Paul Krugman

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

— Paul Krugman

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

— Paul Krugman

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

— Paul Krugman

Economics is not a morality play.

— Paul Krugman

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

— Paul Krugman

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

— Paul Krugman

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

— Paul Krugman

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

— Paul Krugman

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

— Paul Krugman

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

— Paul Krugman

“The rich are different from you and me: they have more influence.”

— Paul Krugman

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

— Paul Krugman

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

— Paul Krugman

The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial…

— Paul Krugman

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes…

— Paul Krugman

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

— Paul Krugman

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology…

— Paul Krugman

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment…

— Paul Krugman

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked…

— Paul Krugman

I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really…

— Paul Krugman

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda…

— Paul Krugman

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that…

— Paul Krugman

If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space…

— Paul Krugman

We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive —…

— Paul Krugman

Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness…

— Paul Krugman

To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first…

— Paul Krugman

I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents…

— Paul Krugman

What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -…

— Paul Krugman

“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized…

— Paul Krugman

...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says…

— Paul Krugman

“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.…

— Paul Krugman

“It was only with the crisis that debt soared. Yet many Europeans in key positions - especially politicians and officials in Germany,…

— Paul Krugman

“Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and…

— Paul Krugman

In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically…

— Paul Krugman

“The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone…

— Paul Krugman