Wal-Mart policy of raising wages should inspire othersLow wages are a political choice and we can and should choose differentlyTue Mar 03 2015 - 14:00
Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge, it’s about who has the powerThe argument that an ‘education gap’ is at the root of inequality is at odds with the evidenceTue Feb 24 2015 - 05:45
Weimar Germany’s pertinent lesson is not to levy tribute on a ruined GreeceGreece cannot pay its debts in full and austerity has devastated its economy as thoroughly as military defeat devastated GermanyTue Feb 17 2015 - 01:00
Ignorance about debt has led to wrong- headed austerity policies in US and EuropeIf everyone slashes spending at the same time, incomes go down around the worldTue Feb 10 2015 - 01:00
Paul Krugman: Never mind the long term, let’s focus on the challenges nowWashington needs to take on the hard issue of short-run gratificationWed Feb 04 2015 - 11:11
Paul Krugman: Syriza should ignore calls to be responsibleThe troika was peddling an economic fantasy: Greeks have paid the priceTue Jan 27 2015 - 16:06
Grappling with a political era in which facts don’t matterFrom climate change to Omabacare, actual evidence is irrelevant to an angry cohortTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:01
Republican backing of Keystone is all about fossil fuel industryDebts must be paid and the oil and gas industry expects to be rewarded for its supportTue Jan 13 2015 - 06:00
Paul Krugman: Those who blamed Obama for US economic ills now look like foolsStimulus programme and protection of Fed independence key presidential achievementsTue Jan 06 2015 - 01:00
Russian crisis offers valuable lesson: plunder isn't what it used to bePutin may be starting to see that war makes you poorer, even if you winTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Wall Street uses Republicans to water down financial reformA key provision of Dodd-Frank has been reversed thanks to Wall Street’s CongressTue Dec 16 2014 - 01:01
Paul Krugman: slow recovery stems from catatonic policy of self-serving US conservative politiciansThings finally looking better for American workers but this improvement comes after years of sufferingTue Dec 09 2014 - 01:00
Is Germany Europe’s real ‘bad boy’?Euro zone’s largest economy is effectively exporting deflation to its neighboursTue Dec 02 2014 - 01:02
Governments fail to learn lessons of economic rock bottomOpinion: those whose doctrines failed reality test refuse to admit error, let alone learnTue Nov 25 2014 - 12:06
There’s a lot of good news Republicans don’t want the American public to noticeWhen the Ebola freak-out was at its peak, it wasn’t just a disease but a political metaphorTue Nov 18 2014 - 08:59
Millions of Americans may miss out on healthcare on the basis of an obvious typoConsequences if Supreme Court suit were to prevail would be grotesqueTue Nov 11 2014 - 02:00
Paul Krugman: business leaders are not economic oraclesSuccess in business does not seem to convey any special insight into economic policyTue Nov 04 2014 - 15:32
Support for spending is part of America’s historyNowadays we simply won’t invest even when the need is obviousTue Oct 28 2014 - 01:00
Amazon hurting readers and authors alike by putting squeeze on publishersBook sales depend on word of mouth and online retailer has power to kill buzzTue Oct 21 2014 - 01:00
Righteousness is killing the global economyOpinion: history shows us mass deleveraging does not workTue Oct 14 2014 - 01:00
Conservatives in thrall to old black magic of voodoo economicsOpinion: Republican diktat to budget office would mean end to policy refereeTue Oct 07 2014 - 01:00
Invisible wealthy keep inequality shroudedThe truly rich are so removed from ordinary people’s lives that we never see what they haveTue Sept 30 2014 - 01:00
The urge to blame victims of recession remains strongWhat the Republican Party really believes is, it’s your own faultWed Sept 24 2014 - 10:38
Economists behaving badly compounded catastropheOpinion: too many influential economists performed poorly after financial crisisTue Sept 16 2014 - 01:00
Why Scotland should think hard about going it aloneOpinion: it’s likely Scotland would become Spain without the sunshineTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
Fall in healthcare costs reveals US Medicare as far from pipe dreamHealth spending has slowed sharply - it’s already well below projectionsTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:04
High housing costs pushing Americans out of the northeastDespite what Rick Perry might argue, it’s housing policy that explains growth in southern statesTue Aug 26 2014 - 13:23
Wars make no economic sense yet they still happenUkraine confrontation raises some scary prospectsTue Aug 19 2014 - 01:00
Libertarian notion of US government is foolish fantasyIs libertarian economics at all realistic?The answer is noTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:00
Wall Street is screaming because US financial reform is workingCreation of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should not have been controversialTue Aug 05 2014 - 01:00
Closing outrageous inversion loophole right now would be good startThe US federal government still gets one-tenth of its revenue from corporate profits taxationTue Jul 29 2014 - 01:00
The debt apocalypse has been called offIt’s hard to escape the feeling that debt panic served a political purposeTue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00
Usual suspects still agitate despite Obamacare successOpinion: predictions continue to be doom-laden despite the evidenceTue Jul 15 2014 - 01:00
When faith meets evidence, evidence doesn’t stand a chanceConservative delusions about inflation hint at a much larger rejection of fact-based thinkingTue Jul 08 2014 - 01:04
Supply-side tax cutters in the fantasy land of OzThe experience of Kansas is just the latest evidence that Reagan’s trickle-down economics is a fantasyTue Jul 01 2014 - 01:01
Ideal path on climate policy could be compromise of a second-best solutionIn policy terms, climate action would probably look like health reformTue Jun 24 2014 - 13:15
In defence of Obama: why this could be his best yearOpinion: the US president should be judged by his achievements, not his pressTue Jun 17 2014 - 01:00
Hostility to science frustrating attempt to tackle global warmingToxic mix of ideology and anti-intellectualism makes rational action on climate so hardTue Jun 10 2014 - 01:00
Rich getting wealthier but inequality denial persistsCritics of consensus need to ask whether they’re seeking intellectual honesty, or are acting as concern trollsTue Jun 03 2014 - 01:00
Europe’s success in job creation a well-kept secret in USUS conservatives don’t like to admit that European-style welfare states have proven more successful at job creationTue May 27 2014 - 01:00
Bankers not blamed for errors while families paid in fullHow can people feel good about track records that are objectively so bad?Tue May 20 2014 - 01:00
The US right’s new reason for opposing action on climate change: it’s MarxistJustice Scalia’s criticism of an attempt to curb pollution gives a taste of what’s to comeTue May 13 2014 - 01:00
Republicans still slinging mud at health reform in hope its success won’t stickThe constant harping on alleged failure of Obamacare works as innuendoTue May 06 2014 - 01:00
US right needs to reflect on its fight for ‘freedom’Opinion: rancher Cliven Bundy’s racist ranting has given American conservatives an easy outTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
Sweden a classic case of sadomonetarism in actionCountry went from being a role model for recovery to the Nordic JapanTue Apr 22 2014 - 01:01
Costly financial sector gives us little or nothingThere is a clear correlation between the rise of modern finance and the US’s return to Gilded Age levels of inequalityTue Apr 15 2014 - 01:00
US skills gap a zombie idea that refuses to dieSkills myth shifts attention away from soaring profits and bonusesTue Apr 01 2014 - 01:00
Republican policy favours those living off inherited wealthToday’s GOP values the interests of the rich over those of ordinary familiesTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
GOP racism signals failure to accept an inconvenient truthPaul Ryan wasn’t being inarticulate - he was making the only argument that he’s gotTue Mar 18 2014 - 01:00