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e American economy, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, compared them in his latest article in the New York Times, Pointing Toward Prosperity? As Krugman points out Mitt Romney's five-point plan to restore prosperity is a list of things he claims will happen, with no description of the policies he wou

e both President Obama and Governor Romney are promising that their economic policies will invigorate the American economy, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, compared them in his latest article in the New York Times, Pointing Toward Prosperity? As Krugman points out Mitt Romney's five-point plan to resto

s in 2020, rather than at the clear and pressing problems of the present — a bunch of modest if sensible proposals rather than a big push. Again as Krugman says; a slow job is better than a snow job. Mr. Obama may not be as bold as we'd like, but he isn't actively misleading voters the way Mr. Romney is

e Reagan, he also began his term with an economic slump, then claimed that the recovery from that slump proved the success of his policies. And like Reaganomics — but more quickly — Bushonomics has ended in grief with the economy in free-fall on a way to a full-fledged depression. The root of the problem ca

ression, they probably won't blame fear, per se. Instead, they'll castigate our leaders for doing the wrong things as a result of unnecessary fear. Krugman: For the overriding fear driving economic policy has been debt hysteria, fear that unless we slash spending we'll turn into Greece any day now. Afte

mption that today's good news somehow is attached to a bad story as negative consequences could begin, not too far in the future. As Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman wrote this week in his op-ed in the New York Times - The Jobless Trap — We are creating a permanent class of unemployed Americans as a result of our

may have been stack during the two latest economic bubbles in favor of those running the house. People forget that during the arguments in favor of Reaganomics, prominent Republican economists publicly claimed that deficits didn't matter, and during the Bush/Cheney Administration there was almost universal

d have been to return Mr. Monti — who was essentially imposed on Italy by its creditors — to office, this time with an actual democratic mandate. As Paul ICrugman wrote this week in the New York Times — Austerity, Italian Style — things aren't looking good as Mr. Monti's party appears likely to come in fourth

who supported income equality, gay and women's rights, as well as an economy that grows bottom up instead of trickling down, as thirty-plus years of Reaganomics has proven a disaster for the Middle Class. Mitt Romney and his supporters pooh-pooh President Obama as a community organizer. But if they think th

a presidential election is the extent to which protectionism is being intellectually rehabilitated in the United States. Respected economists like Paul Krugman and Fred Bergsten have argued that imposing tariffs would be a legitimate U.S. response to Chinese currency policies. A similar shift is underway i

y night that by the account of his own advisers is more campaign document than a plan for governing. He's running against Republicans in Congress, Reaganomics, wealthy bankers and inequality. Normally a President at the start of his fourth year would be running on his record, accentuating the legislation