Paul Krugman's Blog, page 599
November 16, 2009
Proposed extensions of Godwin's Law
Comparisons that mean you've lost the argument.
Talk at Riksbank, 11/16/09
Slides for today's presentation.
November 13, 2009
It's the stupidity economy
Bad ideas are acting as serious constraints on policy.
Fiscal perspective
The economy desperately needs more help -- and yes, we can afford to provide it.
November 12, 2009
Lou Dobbs
Until now it really has seemed as if there was nothing, nothing at all, that someone on the right could say and do that would make them unacceptable in polite company.
Goodbye, Mr. TIPS?
Puzzling interest rate movements.
November 11, 2009
The agony of Fox Business
The economy just refuses to punish liberals and reward conservatives the way it's supposed to.
November 10, 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert can't say that, can she?
Kolbert builds her essay around an extended metaphor that I'm pretty sure wouldn't be allowed under Times style.
Classical cloture
Back when men were men and women were property, they had ways of dealing with obstructionist tactics from the legislative opposition:
Armey of ignorance
In Dick Armey's world, in fact on the right as a whole, the affirmative-action-made-them-do-it doctrine isn't even seen as a hypothesis.
