Paul Krugman's Blog, page 587
January 9, 2010
European decline - a further note
The image of Europe the economic failure is so ingrained on the right that it's never questioned, even though the facts beg to differ.
Click the links!
They're there for a reason.
The health insurance excise tax
Bottom line: the details of the excise tax should be fixed, but it's on balance a good idea.
January 8, 2010
One health care reform, indivisible
There's hardly anything arbitrary about the health care reform.
Payrolls and paradigms
Each successive bad jobs report adds to the evidence that the pessimists were right.
January 7, 2010
This is the way the Chicago School ends
It's hard to avoid the sense that Chicago just turned inward on itself circa 1982, and stopped paying attention either to the world or to anyone not of its tribe.
CRE-ative destruction
This was a broad-based bubble.
More on desert bubbles
How can there be bubbles with plenty of land?
January 6, 2010
Desert bubbles
Even when cities are surrounded by a lot of empty space, that doesn't mean that development can sprawl as easily as in Atlanta or Houston.
