Paul Krugman

But where will the Fed find another bubble?

— Paul Krugman

The planet will continue to cook.

— Paul Krugman

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

— Paul Krugman

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

— Paul Krugman

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

— Paul Krugman

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

— Paul Krugman

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

— Paul Krugman

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

— Paul Krugman

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing.

— Paul Krugman

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

— Paul Krugman

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

— Paul Krugman

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

— Paul Krugman

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

— Paul Krugman

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

— Paul Krugman

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

— Paul Krugman

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

— Paul Krugman

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of…

— Paul Krugman

[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,…

— Paul Krugman

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

— Paul Krugman

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided…

— Paul Krugman

“And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And…

— Paul Krugman

[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely,…

— Paul Krugman

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

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…

— Paul Krugman

[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

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with…

— Paul Krugman

“Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the…

— Paul Krugman

Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to…

— Paul Krugman

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

The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when…

— Paul Krugman

Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in…

— Paul Krugman

“There's another element in the euro crisis, another weakness of a shared currency, that took many people, myself included, by surprise. It…

— 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

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

— Paul Krugman

“As long as there are no routes back to full employment except that of somehow restoring business confidence, he pointed out, business…

— 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

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

— 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

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