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A 2008 Nobel Prize-winner in Economics, Paul Krugman is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He is the author of several books, including The Conscience of a Liberal, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century and The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: US Economic Policy in the 1990s.
Krugman on Trump Donald Trump ( Gage Skidmore ) and Paul Krugman ( Commonwealth Club ) Donald Trump's cabinet choices seem, in some cases, opposed to the purposes of the domestic agencies they're supposed to oversee. And Trump's own conflicts raise questions about foreign policy. These are themes of recent columns by Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winner for Economics who writes on the opinion page of the New York Times .
Paul Krugman talks economics on the campaign trail The Trump and Clinton plans to create jobs and increase growth may be different, but they share one very important consequence. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman Photo by Ed Ritger /Commonwealth Club In presidential campaigns, it's still, "the economy, stupid," and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have announced programs that would increase the national debt. Trump concedes that, even though it's the reverse of a traditional Republican promise. That would be a good thing, according to Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, who's a columnist for the New York Times .
Defending Obama’s Political Legacy Recent polls by ABC News show that 51% of Americans see President Obama more as a failure than a success. Democratic candidates in next month’s crucial Senate elections are not inviting the President in to campaign. Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been Obama’s relentless critic—all the way back to the campaign of 2008. But, Krugman concedes, he’s always been “out of sync.” Now, he’s written that Obama “has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history.” That’s a quote from a lengthy piece in the latest Rolling Stone magazine.
Have People in Power Turned Their Back on Job Creation? US unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent and 45 percent of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months, 30 percent for more than a year. Joblessness has become chronically high on both sides of the Atlantic, but "policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue. The more they fail to do anything, the more they convince themselves there's nothing they could do." That's according to Nobel-Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman , who insists it's time for governments to take action. Is stimulus spending the answer? What about the deficit? Are both Democrats and Republicans failing to govern? In the meantime, what are the consequences of chronic unemployment? Will the US go the way of Spain? We talk with Krugman and others.
Democrats, Healthcare and the Progressive Agenda "The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care." That's the lead of Paul Krugman's column today in the New York Times. Krugman is a Princeton economist whose latest book is The Conscience of a Liberal . Harvard economist David Cutler, author of Your Money or Your Life : Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, served on former President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, and he's now an advisor to Senator Obama.
The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.