Paul Krugman News

New York - Paul Krugman argues that the problem of maintaining adequate demand is likely to be persistent. He argues that this lack of demand is likely to create a situation where slow growth will be the new normal for economies.

New Haven - An article by Jack Balkin a Yale law professor discusses what he calls the new national surveillance state that is being created in many countries including the US.

New York - Keynesian economist Paul Krugman wrote an article in 1998 that predicted that the Internet would experience a significant slowdown and the revolutionary global system wouldn't have much of an economic effect on our lives.

New York - Will Keynesian economist Paul Krugman debate Austrian economist Robert Murphy for charity? Murphy challenged the Nobel-winning economist to a debate in which all proceeds will go to a feed hungry New Yorkers.

New York - The Daily Currant, a parody website, reported that New York Times columnist and Keynesian economist Paul Krugman filed for bankruptcy. Although the story is untrue, many news organizations picked it up as fact.

New York - Paul Krugman complained that the Republican leadership is holding the country hostage on the debt-ceiling issue. He says that they are threatening to blow up the world economy, if they do not get their way in the debt-ceiling debate.

Washington - In a recent blog post, The New York Times' Paul Krugman urges President Obama to go ahead and mint the trillion-dollar platinum coin to prevent Congressional Republicans forcing the US economy into a default crisis by refusing to lift the debt ceiling.

New York - Does anyone like Paul Krugman? Speaking with conservatives George Will and Mary Matalin on ABC's "This Week," it appeared that his fellow pundits are starting to become frustrated with Krugman and his economic viewpoints.

New York - Is a disaster as catastrophic as Hurricane Sandy actually beneficial to the economy and a nation's populace? Keynesian economists like to suggest such nonsense, but the notions have already been refuted by the likes of Frederic Bastiat.

Sydney - I’ve been describing American politics as pure criminal anti-democracy for some time. But a US election year, which happens in the same years as the Olympics, is worth watching for the exact opposite reasons that I watch the Olympics.