February 2012
8 posts
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“The beginning of any understanding of macroeconomics is the realization that...”
– Partying Like It’s 1934 - NYTimes.com
“Environmental regulations could actually be creating jobs right now, but people...”
– Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman : Playboy.com
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“…all the federal government needs to do to give the economy a big boost is...”
– Pain Without Gain - NYTimes.com
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Moochers Against Welfare - NYTimes.com →
…voters imagine that pledges to slash government spending mean cutting programs for the idle poor, not things they themselves count on. And this is a confusion politicians deliberately encourage. For example, when Mr. Romney responded to the new Obama budget, he condemned Mr. Obama for not taking on entitlement spending — and, in the very next breath, attacked him for cutting Medicare.
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“The point is that today’s dismal G.O.P. field — is there anyone who doesn’t...”
– Severe Conservative Syndrome - NYTimes.com
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“You can say this for the former Massachusetts governor and Bain Capital...”
– Romney Isn’t Concerned - NYTimes.com
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January 2012
10 posts
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“Again, the point here is not that Romney did something wrong by paying the low...”
– Romney’s Taxes - NYTimes.com
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“…the economic record certainly doesn’t support the notion that superlow...”
– Taxes at the Top - NYTimes.com
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“Yet if King could see America now, I believe that he would be disappointed, and...”
– How Fares the Dream? - NYTimes.com
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“we’re not going to get better policies if the man sitting in the Oval Office...”
– America Isn’t a Corporation - NYTimes.com
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“Why, it’s as if Romney doesn’t understand his own health reform, which was in...”
– Who Fires Whom? - NYTimes.com
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“Think about it: someone who really wanted equal opportunity would be very...”
– America’s Unlevel Field - NYTimes.com
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“The real complaint about Mr. Romney and his colleagues isn’t that they destroyed...”
– Bain, Barack and Jobs - NYTimes.com
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The Soft Bigotry of Low Employment Expectations -... →
First, note that there are still about 6 million fewer jobs than there were at the end of 2007 — and that we would normally have expected to have added around 5 million jobs over a four-year period. So we’re 11 million jobs down — and we need at least 100,000 jobs a month just to keep up with working-age population growth. Do the math, and you’ll see that it would take 9 or 10 years of growth at...
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“So yes, debt matters. But right now, other things matter more. We need more, not...”
– Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com
December 2011
11 posts
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“The bottom line is that 2011 was a year in which our political elite obsessed...”
– Keynes Was Right - NYTimes.com
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“With everything else that has been going on in U.S. politics recently, the...”
– Springtime for Toxics - NYTimes.com
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“So here’s my forecast for next year: If Mr. Romney is in fact the Republican...”
– The Post-Truth Campaign - NYTimes.com
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“Sometimes (actually, often) it feels like I’m in one of those nightmares where...”
– Slow Learners - NYTimes.com
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“Maybe it was always thus, but the relentless wrong-headedness of the Europeans,...”
– Orwellian Currency Area - NYTimes.com
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“The truth is that what’s good for the 1 percent, or even better the 0.1 percent,...”
– All the G.O.P.’s Gekkos - NYTimes.com
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“…whoever finally gets the Republican nomination will be a deeply flawed...”
– Send In the Clueless - NYTimes.com
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“For pet lovers, a Romney dog-on-car carrying case, and a Rick Santorum man … I...”
– Political Holiday Gifts - NYTimes.com
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“The recording industry is screwed.”
– Paul Krugman on Sound Opinions Footnotes.
November 2011
10 posts
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“In Democrat-world, up is up and down is down. Raising taxes increases revenue,...”
– Failure Is Good - NYTimes.com
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“By acting so badly, Bloomberg has made it easy to see who won’t be truthful and...”
– Zuccotti - NYTimes.com
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“In fact, it’s hard to avoid the sense that Republicans are especially eager to...”
– Vouchers for Veterans, and Other Bad Ideas - NYTimes.com
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“Any Republican would, if elected president, set out to undermine precisely those...”
– Vouchers for Veterans, and Other Bad Ideas - NYTimes.com
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KRUGMAN / NY TIMES: "This is the way the euro ends... →
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“So it’s worth pointing out that special treatment for fracking makes a mockery...”
– Here Comes Solar Energy - NYTimes.com
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Here Comes Solar Energy - NYTimes.com →
Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives. This political class will do everything it can to ensure subsidies for the extraction and use of fossil fuels, directly with taxpayers’ money and indirectly by letting the industry off the hook for...
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“But, say the wingnuts, you say that rich people are evil. Actually, no — that’s...”
– I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means, Hypocrisy Edition - NYTimes.com
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October 2011
12 posts
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“The key to understanding this, I’d suggest, is that movement conservatism has...”
– Say Anything - NYTimes.com
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“The bitter truth is that it’s looking more and more as if the euro system is...”
– The Hole in Europe’s Bucket - NYTimes.com
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“So what is the G.O.P. jobs plan? The answer, in large part, is to allow more...”
– Party of Pollution - NYTimes.com
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“What caused the financial industry to grow much faster than the rest of the...”
– Wall Street Loses Its Immunity - NYTimes.com
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“It’s a terrible thing when an individual loses his or her grip on reality. But...”
– Rabbit-Hole Economics - NYTimes.com
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“It would all be hilariously funny if these people weren’t destroying the world.”
– Hard Times On Wall Street - NYTimes.com
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Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com →
What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to...
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“What can we say about the protests? First things first: The protesters’...”
– Confronting the Malefactors - NYTimes.com
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“Look at the oddly dressed people acting out! So? Is it better when exquisitely...”
– Unsavvy People - NYTimes.com