Paul Krugman Criticizes Obama over NSA Scandal
Paul Krugman on ABC News’ “This Week” With George Stephanopoulos’ roundtable discussing the NSA surveillance of millions of americans phone and internet records…
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Obamacare to Raise Californians' Individual Premiums 64% to 146%
Triumphalist progressive claims that early California figures prove Obamacare will reduce health insurance costs are coming to a screeching halt as closer analyses reveal Californians will actually experience a staggering 64% to 146% increase in individual health insurance premiums come
Harvard Economists Blast Paul Krugman for 'Uncivil Behavior'
In an open letter published on Saturday, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff fired back at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “spectacularly uncivil behavior” in the wake of a controversy over the scholars’ austerity findings. “It has
Krugman Raises Obamacare Expectations, Promises 'Unexpected Success'
In a surprising departure from Democrats’ strategy of intentionally lowering expectations for Obamacare’s January 2014 grand opening, New York Times progressive columnist Paul Krugman has declared that “the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success” wherein “millions of
Washington & Wall Street: What Does Japan Meltdown Say About US Markets?
Japan’s key equity market indices fell more than 6 percent overnight, the most since the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. Bloomberg reports that futures trading in Osaka was suspended. “Every Asian market outside Sri Lanka retreated after Federal Reserve Chairman
WSJ Columnist Labels Obama 'President Asterisk'
Comparing the unfair advantage of the IRS targeting conservative groups to professional athletes taking illegal steroids, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal believes Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign deserves the mark frequently associated with sports’s most dubious record breakers:
Poll: Most Trusted Person in America … Tom Hanks
According to a new Reader’s Digest poll conducted in cooperation with The Wagner Group, topping Americans’ list of individuals they “trust” the most is … actor Tom Hanks. The Oscar-winning star of such films as Larry Crowne (which nobody saw),
World View-Hepatitis C: Late-Blooming Boomer Epidemic?
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: American bloggers confuse ‘Chechnya’ with ‘Czech Republic’ Krugman in 2002: The Fed should create a housing bubble Hepatitis C: The hidden epidemic for the Boomer generation American bloggers confuse ‘Chechnya’ with ‘Czech Republic’ In
Krugman: California in 'Comeback'!
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has hitched his boat to the failing Titanic that is the state of California. Declaring the state in a state of “comeback,” Krugman wrote this week, “reports of the state’s demise proved premature. Unemployment
Paul Krugman: A Fundamental Difference in Visions for America
Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Paul Krugman dished out another serving of rhetoric on ABC’s “This Week.” His performance on Sunday follows Krugman’s deficit reduction debate with former congressman Joe Scarborough (R-FL) and a recent speech in which Krugman advocated
Dirty Looks, Snide Remarks As Scarborough, Krugman Go Head-To-Head In Debt Debate
Things got nasty on PBS’s “Charlie Rose” Monday night when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and New York Times economist Paul Krugman sat down to debate the American economy.
Palin on 'True' State of the Union: 'Venal Politicians' Bankrupting Nation
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote Wednesday that America is a nation being bankrupt by a federal government led by “venal politicians” in her response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. “What is the true state of
Nancy Pelosi, prophet of ruin
During a radio interview this morning, I was asked if I thought Nancy Pelosi was nuts for saying during a Fox News interview on Sunday, “It’s almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem. We have a budget
NHS Hospital Scandal: Systemic Failure Led to Suffering, Death
Those who believe government run health care is preferable to being at the mercy of rapacious insurance companies need to focus on what is happening in the UK this week. A new report offers a glimpse of substandard care which
Krugman: U.S. Needs Death Panels, Sales Taxes
Nobel Prize winning “economist” Paul Krugman spoke at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. last week. During the Q&A session following the lecture, an audience member asked him about the rising national debt. Earlier in the evening, Krugman
Krugman: Republicans 'Doomed If They Are Only the Party of Old White People'
PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: The fact of immigration is going to happen. The question about what we’re going to do about border control, is there some of that in these proposals, but in any case, that’s almost a separate
Krugman: Bizarre NRA Thinks 'We're Living in a Mad Max Movie'
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Krugman: Let's Just Print More Money
Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has said that our government’s trillions in debt is not a problem and even intimated that we should print more fiat money to get us out of our bad economy. Krugman
Commies Hack Commie Hacks
Talk about carrying your coals to Newcastle: in what may be the greatest waste of espionage assets in human history, computer spies from the People’s Republic of China have infiltrated the New York Times. What were these inscrutable visitors from
Remember When the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Was Sarah Palin's Fault?
I do. At the time, no one was calling for a weapons ban, the Left and their media pals were calling for a Palin ban. Keith Olbermann went further and suggested Bill O’Reilly and conservative commentators were partly responsible.
Former Obama Czar Blasts 'Climate-Change Deniers,' Pilots Private Jet
On Tuesday, former Obama car czar Steven Rattner, who reportedly owns a 15,000-square-foot Martha’s Vineyard mansion and pilots a private jet, blasted “climate-change deniers” on MSNBC’s Morning Joe broadcast. Rattner’s comments came during a debt discussion wherein host Joe Scarborough
Estonian President's Twitter Fight with Paul Krugman Becomes 'Opera'
Paul Krugman, the economist whose writings have graced the pages of the new York Times for years, has now been placed in an arena which would be the logical place for his emotional gyrations: the opera. Last summer, Krugman engaged
How Obama's Death Star Saved America
Thank you, Mr. President! With one heroic decision, you have saved us eight trillion times more than you ever cost us! By resisting public pressure to build the Death Star you have saved us $850 quadrillion, according to your science adviser.
Jon Stewart Fails to Question Roger Waters's Anti-Israel Extremism
Jon Stewart’s continued mockery of Paul Krugman and the trillion-dollar coin has been the focus of much-deserved attention, but there was another part of yesterday’s Daily Show that was even more revealing: Stewart’s interview with Pink Floyd bass guitarist Roger
Debt Ceiling: Krugman Knows the Jig Is Up
The US is approaching its own “triple witching hour”, when we hit the debt ceiling, automatic spending cuts are triggered, and the government’s continuing resolution spending authority expires. The confluence puts in stark relief the government’s unsustainable spending habit. It
