The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day — maybe even… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“The Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s….ten years from now, the phrase “information economy” will sound silly.… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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