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Paul Robin Krugman (; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
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Having denounced Paul Ryan 's budget proposal in your Friday New York Times column as "ludicrous" and having excoriated every prior effort by Republicans to begin to remedy our country's fiscal woes, it is now up to you to rein in government spending. What would your suggestion look like? Let me help you out.It is clear that you consider any attempt to slice the government pie – at least in the near term -- wrongheaded and dangerous for the tentative recovery. You have argued consistently that the Stimulus program was not too large, but rather too puny to pump up demand. By your standards, government spending, now cruising along above 24 % of GDP – an unprecedented peace-time level -- should have moved higher over the past two years. Consequently, the nation's deficit of about $1.7 trillion, which is running at nearly 10% of GDP, the highest in 65 years, should actually have been higher. It's hard to imagine.Some would argue that soaring deficits and debt ...George Soros has donated more than $8 billion globally to his Open Society Foundations. Couple that with decades of investing around the world and it would be easy t...
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Paul Krugman just lost a reader. After the Nobel-winning economist wrote a blog for The New York Times in which he called America's post-Sept. 11 behavior "deeply sh...
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