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Krugman clashes with Van Susteren: ‘No correlation’ between regulation and hiring
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday clashed with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren after she asserted that President Barack Obama’s administration was strangling small businesses with “laughable” regulations. “No one’s paying much attention to these small businesses,” Van Susteren opined during an ABC panel discussion. “The regulations that…
Paul Krugman: ‘Very odd’ for Republicans to oppose drones and support waterboarding
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Sunday said it was “very odd” that Republicans who supported waterboarding would join Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) anti-drone filibuster. Paul began his 13-hour filibuster on Wednesday morning to demand whether the Obama administration believed it could kill a U.S. citizen with a drone strike…
Krugman laments he was ‘unready’ to debate Scarborough on economics
In a debate aired Monday night, MSNBC’s conservative pundit Joe Scarborough faced off with economist and columnist Paul Krugman over America’s debt, deficit and level of spending. Krugman, a dogged proponent of deficit spending as a way to stimulate the economy, admitted before the show aired that Scarborough had gotten…
Paul Krugman: Sequester ‘was designed to be stupid’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman used some of President Barack Obama’s language on Friday in describing the spending cuts the president signed into effect. While the federal sequester isn’t as bad as the “fiscal cliff” debate that tied up Congress and the White House at the end of 2012, Krugman…
Scarborough: Paul Krugman ‘is as extreme’ as NRA’s Wayne LaPierre
Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough took the “both sides do it” argument to the limit on Thursday when he declared that Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman was “as extreme” as National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre. During his Morning Joe broadcast, Scarborough blasted LaPierre’s recent “Stand and Fight” op-ed responding…
Krugman schools ‘Morning Joe’ on austerity: ‘How many times’ do I have to be right?
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Monday attempted to give the panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe a lesson about why austerity and drastic spending cuts were the wrong solution in tough economic times. “Our track record is actually not bad, we’ve tended to reduce our debt at least relative to…
Estonian president’s Twitter fight with Paul Krugman becomes an opera
A Twitter feud in June between the Estonian president and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who questioned the impact of Estonia’s austerity measures, is being turned into an opera, US composer Eugene Birman told AFP on Wednesday. “Our short opera will be first performed by Iris Oja and the…
Krugman: Recession ‘gratuitous’ because if Congress created jobs program it ‘would all be over’
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, economics professor at Princeton University and Nobel prize winner talked to Bill Moyers on Jan. 11 about what he believes is the best path forward to a strong economic recovery. Moyers started by noting that 235,000 signed a petition that said Krugman should…
Krugman: Budget proposals ‘only considered serious if you inflict pain on vulnerable people’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Tuesday said it was “unfair” to accuse President Barack Obama of not putting forth serious reforms to Medicare amid the fiscal cliff negotiations. Krugman noted on PBS’ Newshour that Obamacare seeks to reduce Medicare costs without affecting eligibility or benefits. The law is estimated…
Matalin rages at Krugman: You ‘lied’ about Ryan proposing vouchers for Medicare
Republican strategist Mary Matalin on Sunday attempted to lecture Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, saying he had “lied” by claiming Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s wanted to turn Medicare into a voucher system. During panel discussion on ABC’s This Week, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan asserted that Republican…
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