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Taxing Financial Transactions--Not exactly the Heart of the Matter
Red State Impressions —
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Paul Krugman proposes a tax on financial transactions as a way to discourage the day to day churning of accounts on Wall Street. Tobin’s idea went nowhere at the time. Later, much to his dismay, it became a favorite hobbyhorse of the anti-globalization left. But the Turner-Brown proposal, which would apply a ...20 hours ago -
WhiteHouse.gov Plays Media Critic: Calls Krauthammers Washington Post Column Wholly Inaccurate
Stupidica —
Authority: 175
Well, its not quite as bad as Paul Krugman critiquing the Fox Business Network, but a little troubling because tax dollars are being spent to undertake such an effort. A Nov. 27 post by incoming White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer on the The White House Blog attempted to fact check a Nov. 27 column by ...1 day ago -
Are many new businesses going to be useless?
m-cause —
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Most businesses are socially useless . –Umair Haque With “Black Friday” behind us and “Cyber Monday” ahead of us, economic pundits continue to wring their hands and fret that holiday retail consumer spending will not “hold up” enough in 2009 to pull us out of the current economic funk. At the same ...1 day ago -
Paul Krugman Opinion: Taxing the Speculators
Progressive News Daily —
Authority: 162
by Paul Krugman The New York Times Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world’s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree — and they’re right. Unfortunately, United States officials — especially ...1 day ago -
Answer: Because Versailles sucks
Corrente —
Authority: 626
Thats a headline, and answer, I expect to keep using for some time. This time, its occasioned by these two posts from Paul Krugman: [T]he Fed expects unemployment to come down only very gradually — over 9 percent at the end of 2010, over 8 percent at the end of 2011, around 7 percent at the end of 2012. ...2 days ago -
What’s all this I hear about Fiscal Restraint?
The Confluence —
Authority: 616
Martin Wolfs History lesson on Federal Debts Deficits never bother Republicans when they are the ones creating them by foolishly ridding themselves of a tax base and building the nation’s stockpile of weapons, war toys, and defense lobbyists. Give us one bad economy where we actually need to put deficit spending ...3 days ago -
Yes the Future Deficits are Worrisome
Wall Street Pit —
Authority: 640
Paul Krugman ([1], [2], [3]) has been arguing vigorously that U.S. budget deficits are no cause for concern. I see things differently.One of the arguments that Krugman makes is that, although the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to double over a short period, the higher level would still be...3 days ago -
Pessimistic forecasts
Creative Destruction —
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Paul Krugman is warning of an extremely weak economy in the years ahead: ... a weird complacency has settled in on the state of the actual economy. We’re recovering, everyone says — no need to do anything more. Yet the outlook is extremely grim — not according to DFHs like yours truly, but according to ...4 days ago -
Clunker Goals Get Clunker Results [GDP Update] – Open Thread
NO QUARTER —
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(Bumped up from Saturday and with revised GDP update) Trashing a vehicle is pretty easy to do. Of course, if your goal was to to have fun and still be able to drive home at the end of the day, then breaking an axle can only be counted as a very costly mistake. The kind of mistake that makes you wish you could ...4 days ago -
Dueling Op-Eds
2parse —
Authority: 129
Last Friday saw two sets of dueling op-eds on the opinion pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times . At the Post , Charles Krauthammer, professional pundit, accuses the Obama administration of aiding Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in giving “voice” to the “propaganda of the deed” that was September 11 ...4 days ago -
Wednesday Night #1447
Wednesday-Night —
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What an interesting week we have survived, giving rise to a series of randomly related topics for which we will have to find a thread - or maybe not. The EU now has a permanent president and chief of foreign affairs. Of course, no-one is totally happy and there is sniping over the ‘unknowns’ who have been ...5 days ago -
Timmy, Jamie and Paul…..
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
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Okay, a couple of thoughts about this report that people are considering Jamie Dimon from JP Morgan Chase as a successor to current Treasury Secretary Geithner: Do they know something that we don’t? The last that I had heard, he wasn’t up for renomination or anything like that….. Please tell me they ...5 days ago -
If Obama Doesnt Do Enough
Random Thoughts from Random Places —
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to jumpstart the economy, he will be a one-term president for sure. It appears he cant understand the need for this government to create more jobs to get the economy moving. Thats because he is a neoliberal, and they dont differ a hell of a lot from the Republicans when it comes to economic matters.5 days ago -
Krugman on the Debt and Deficits
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
Authority: 682
Paul Krugman has taken some rather interesting stances on the fiscal situation here in the U.S. First up is a piece entitled Fiscal Train Wreck from March 2003, With war looming, it’s time to be prepared. So last week I switched to a fixed-rate mortgage. It means higher monthly payments, but I’m terrified ...5 days ago -
NYT vs. NYT
Get the Flick —
Authority: 134
My regular readers know that I use The New York Times as a source on regular basis. It is, perhaps, the most frequently quoted source for me. (I don’t keep up with such things.) Yesterday was an example of why I read it and quote it. Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government My conservative friends ...5 days ago -
Paul Krugman–Videos
Pronk Palisades —
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The Return of Depression Economics Paul Krugman on “The Return of Depression Economics?” Authors@Google: Paul Krugman Krugman: Fixing Long-Term Deficits Not Hard Economically, But Politically Impossible Inside Look – How Did Paul Krugman Get It So Wrong? – ...5 days ago -
On the Stimulus
Dollars & Sense blog —
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Paul Krugmans column in todays New York Times is on the stimulus and the deficit, and how Wall Street is scaring the Obama administration into not doing the right thing with a second stimulus to create jobs. This article from Saturdays Times indicates that theres now a consensus among economists that the ...5 days ago -
Reply to Paul Krugman
Gold Newswire —
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By Howard S. Katz, GoldSeek “Selection of gold as our state mineral is acknowledgement of the intimate part it has played in the history of our people and of the fact that mining is a major California economic activity.” Governor Edmund G. Brown, Apr. 23, 1965 (signing legislation designating gold ...5 days ago -
Timmy, Jamie and Paul…..
Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate —
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Okay, a couple of thoughts about this report that people are considering Jamie Dimon from JP Morgan Chase as a successor to current Treasury Secretary Geithner: Do they know something that we don’t? The last that I had heard, he wasn’t up for renomination or anything like that….. Please tell me they ...5 days ago -
National Debt Hysteria?
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
Authority: 682
In a front piece story in today’s NYT, Edmund Andrews warns that the bill is about to come due on the massive borrowing the federal government has engaged in. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and ...5 days ago
