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The Lesser Depression (Like 1930's, Krugman)
NYT ^ | 7-21-2011 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 07/22/2011 4:17:04 AM PDT by blam

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Economic Policy: Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says the U.S. is in the “early stages of a third Great Depression.”

If he’s right, it’s only because American policymakers have been following his advice...”

IBD editorial
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/538727/201006281830/Krugmans-Depression.aspx


21 posted on 07/22/2011 6:17:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Velvet_Jones

Sorry, I was only pointing out that the idiot from Princeton was wrong to say the Republicans, whom he calls “right-wing fanatics” have no plan.

It’s the Democrats who either don’t have a plan or who have a secret plan.

Does Krugman have a plan? First, what would it matter? Anybody can come up with a plan. But, in the real world, you have to work with others. As an entrepreneur, you have to sell your plan to investors. In politics, you have to fashion majority support for your plan.

Second, as you point out, Krugman’s plan is idiotic. I think it questions whether he has succumbed to mental illness. Have you seen him on PBS? He looks deranged. He is beyond opinionated and is arrogant and disrespectful of others. He uses his Nobel Prize in economics (for the implications of imperfect competition for international trade, which, by the way, I love) as a bludgeon, when other Nobel Prize winners have addressed the economics of deficit spending in ways that differ from his and roughly accord with the principles imbedded in the Republican plan.


22 posted on 07/22/2011 6:33:17 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: sickoflibs; blam; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; NFHale; mkjessup; ...

Krugman just bought my old business....

Jim Bobway’s Currency Exchange


23 posted on 07/22/2011 6:40:18 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: blam
The antidote to the poison Krugman spews from his computer keyboard:

Krugman-in-Wonderland

24 posted on 07/22/2011 6:44:45 AM PDT by logician2u
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To: sickoflibs

Beam him up, Scotty!

Or maybe this guy is in another galaxy and he needs to be beamed down.

Oh jeez, did you see that? The Mad Hatter just went through the room, the tooth fairy will come tonight to leave me lots of money and I have a bridge I’ll sell ya cheap.


25 posted on 07/22/2011 7:38:58 AM PDT by dools0007world (uestion)
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To: blam

Krugman = JournOlist = fraud


26 posted on 07/22/2011 7:44:29 AM PDT by demsux (Obama: THE job destroyer)
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Love it. krugman describes the plan to quit borrowing, reduce our debt and strengthen our financial position to be the action of right wing fanatics.

So when krugman gets let go from the Moscow times, I would bet that he quits borrowing, reduces his debt and strengthens his personal financial position.

That would make krugman a right wing fanatic.

Pissin in the wind just gets you wet there nobel prize goofball.


27 posted on 07/22/2011 7:50:35 AM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Can I borrow a few thousand?


28 posted on 07/22/2011 8:30:22 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: trebb

>>Consider that 12,500 in the market has the real value of about 9,000.<<

Thank you for the good news. I was figuring it was below 8k by now.


29 posted on 07/22/2011 8:32:51 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: B4Ranch

Why? You wanna buy a pack of gum?

;-)


30 posted on 07/22/2011 8:48:29 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I was hoping to take Momma out for dinner.


31 posted on 07/22/2011 8:53:57 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: B4Ranch

Then you need more.... 10,000 Zimbabwe dollars = one chicken leg.


32 posted on 07/22/2011 9:26:28 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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Mortgage the house again. I’m getting tired of this.


33 posted on 07/22/2011 9:50:56 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: blam
Our nation is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. The “right fanatics” think this is not a good idea.

And they are to blame for financial markets having concerns with our nations borrowing?

34 posted on 07/22/2011 9:57:08 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: B4Ranch

Don’t mortgage the house! Merely steal your neighbors wallet......it’s the “ Obama Way “


35 posted on 07/22/2011 10:20:29 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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Is that what they mean by “sharing the wealth?”


36 posted on 07/22/2011 12:37:58 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: B4Ranch

Yeah.....or like when Huckleberry Finn “ borrowed” something ;-)


37 posted on 07/22/2011 1:14:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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