Bernanke Turns Timid in Krugman View of Princetonians on Japan
When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke launched a $600 billion round of asset purchases in November, he said it would lead to a “virtuous cycle” that boosted the expansion. Paul Krugman, his...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: The Euro Crisis Will End With Something ‘Impossible’ Happening
In an exclusive interview, Paul Krugman — who just published a new book titled End This Depression Now! — tells us how the Euro crisis will end. He basically sees two possible outcomes, both of [...]
View ArticleThe Fed Now Owns 27% Of All Duration, Rising At Over 10% Per Year
When it comes to diving trends in the Fed’s take over of the Treasury market, there are those who haven’t got the faintest clue about what is going on, such as Paul Krugman, who naively [...]
View ArticleFed Is the Villain in Krugman-Stockman Brawl
Because I don’t have — and have no prayer of ever having — a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, this statement is tantamount to blasphemy: Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning economist and New York Times...
View ArticleHere’s The Answer To Paul Krugman’s Difficult Question About Bitcoin
Paul Krugman set off a new firestorm this weekend with a post about Bitcoin that asked a fairly simple question: What gives a bitcoin its worth? The post drew a ton of angry reaction from [...]
View ArticleScandinavian Debt Crisis Waiting to Happen Puzzles Krugman
Scandinavia, which attracted investors during Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, is now coming under international scrutiny on concern that record household debt levels from Denmark to Sweden aren’t...
View ArticleIt’s All But Official: There is No 2% Inflation Target
Rather, there is a 2% upper bound to the Fed’s inflation target. This is an argument that Ryan Avent, Matt Yglesias, Paul Krugman, and others have been making for some time. I am sympathetic to [...]
View ArticleBad Loans Could Bust China
The risk of what Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls “Japanification” — a semipermanent economic funk — has haunted China for at least a couple of years now. Last week a Bank of America Merrill Lynch [...]
View ArticleAbe Listening to Krugman After Tokyo Limo Ride on Abenomics Fate
When Japanese economist Etsuro Honda heard that Paul Krugman was planning a visit to Tokyo, he saw an opportunity to seize the advantage in Japan’s sales-tax debate. With a December deadline...
View ArticleWhy Paul Krugman is scared of China
For economist Paul Krugman, the challenges facing China’s economy are enough to keep him up at night. …
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