Paul Krugman's Blog, page 598

November 23, 2009

Deficit hysteria

Isn't there something weird about a conventional wisdom that's at odds with market prices?
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Published on November 23, 2009 00:24

November 22, 2009

Paging Henry Higgins

The linguistic divide endures.
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Published on November 22, 2009 13:09

Joke Europeans

If these countries can run up debts of more than 100 percent of GDP without being destroyed by bond vigilantes, so can we.
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Published on November 22, 2009 12:54

1994

An interest rate spike that didn't quite work as advertised.
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Published on November 22, 2009 12:50

Role reversal

The same people now warning about the alleged Treasury bubble dismissed warnings about the housing bubble
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Published on November 22, 2009 02:49

November 20, 2009

Interest rates: the phantom menace

What I think lies behind the surprising deficit squeamishness of the Obama administration, and why it's wrong-headed.
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Published on November 20, 2009 08:44

Exterminate! Exterminate!

Daleks and EU foreign policy.
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Published on November 20, 2009 01:59

November 19, 2009

Invisible bond vigilantes

It would be a very, very bad thing if the administration is intimidated into passivity -- or, worse, into neo-Hooverism -- by the threat from invisible, probably imaginary enforcers.
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Published on November 19, 2009 12:39

November 18, 2009

The AIG report

By itself, the AIG story would be damaging enough. But it's part of a pattern -- and that pattern has ended up undermining the economy's prospects, big time.
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Published on November 18, 2009 01:21

November 16, 2009

The madness of the inflation hawks

Monetary tightening shouldn't be on the agenda for a long, long time.
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Published on November 16, 2009 08:59