Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes… — 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
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels… — 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
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology… — 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
