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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

5 percentage points, more than in any other country; at this rate, they could reach sustainable debt levels in two years or so." Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, the leading experts on financial crises, argue that the United States is performing better than most countries in similar circumstances. U.S. consu

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

two main studies providing the alleged intellectual justification for austerity — Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna on "expansionary austerity" and Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff on the dangerous debt "threshold" at go percent of G.D.P. The problem is that the studies did not hold up under scrutiny. Becaus

Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff use historical data from 66 co

gree of certainty; historically, productivity forecasts have been notoriously wrong. In The Age of Diminished Expectations,” first published in 1990, Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics and professor at City University of New York, wrote that the lower pace of productivity growth experienced since the ear

ent low productivity growth rates do not portend low growth rates going forward. Just as Hansen was proven wrong on his secular stagnation theory and Krugman was proven wrong on his diminished expectations for the US economy (and they were both influenced by their pessimistic view on productivity), those w

ernational Macroeconomics, by Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff, MIT Press, 1996. e This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Princeton University Press, 2009, (selected chapters). Readings: Readings can be accessed online or are available on Reserve at

Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation," NBER working paper 11901, December 2005. X. JAPAN’S DEFLATION TRAP *Krugman, Paul, "It's Baaack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap," Brookings Papers on Macroeconomic Activity, 1998, v2, 137-205. (including c