Paul Krugman's Blog, page 606
October 12, 2009
Seoul feud?
Who's that guy talking before I do?
Ben "Chauncey" Bernanke
Reading deep meaning into content-free statements.
An institutional economics prize
Institutional economics has been making a quiet comeback for the past several decades.
October 11, 2009
When should the Fed raise rates? (even more wonkish)
Even with a really strong recovery (which almost nobody expects), the Fed should keep rates on hold for at least two years.
Peter Temin corrects my history
What really happened in Germany, 1931.
October 10, 2009
The madness of the monetary hawks (wonkish)
It seems to be really hard for central bankers to accept the need for prolonged easy money, even if all the data say that's what is needed.
October 9, 2009
Beware the dollar hawks
The declining dollar will, I'm sure, be used as yet another justification for bizarrely premature Fed hawkishness.
Modified goldbugism at the WSJ
The WSJ may not realize it, but it wants us to be France in the 1930s. Let's not.
October 8, 2009
Opt-out public option
At first blush, it sounds good.
Lost in translation
A "fully conservative Bible translation"????
