Paul Krugman: Easing income inequality need not hurt growthRecent studies on redistribution can change the debateTue Mar 11 2014 - 01:00
Inflation obsession persists, year after yearOpinion: ‘Sado-monetarism,’ is very much alive todayTue Mar 04 2014 - 01:00
Obamacare hardship cases proving difficult to findDo conservatives realise their Plan A on health reform isn’t working?Tue Feb 25 2014 - 01:03
Comcast takeover of Time Warner is a monopoly makerThere’s good reason to believe monopoly is itself a barrier to innovationTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:01
‘Lazy unemployed’ last recourse of the bankrupt politicianNotions of typical long-term jobless in US fails to match factsTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
Turkey’s troubles contagious due to bad policies in WestIntervals between crises seem to be getting shorter, and the fallout from each one seems to be worse than the lastTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Insecure rich lash out even more furiouslyExtreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from realityTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Fancy footwork propagates myth of the deserving richEconomic inequality is the US is stark, and no amount of muddying the facts or wishful thinking can disguise itTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Republicans are doing all they can to hurt the poorThe reason that reputation is so hard to shake is that it’s justifiedTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
Paul Krugman: Rhetoric on inequality must be matched by deedsInequality probably played an important role in creating our economic mess, and has played a crucial role in our failure to clean it upTue Dec 17 2013 - 01:03
Republican answer is to add to the pain of the unemployedThe odds are the long-term jobless will be cut off thanks to a perfect marriage of callousness and bad economicsTue Dec 10 2013 - 01:00
A Christmas gift for McWorkers – raise the minimum wageThe Economic Policy Institute estimates an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 would benefit 30 million workersTue Dec 03 2013 - 01:02
Californian success shows how Obamacare can workThe Affordable Care Act is working well in a number of states running their own online health exchanges instead of HealthCare.govTue Nov 26 2013 - 01:00
Why long-term recession might be the new normalWhat if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades?Tue Nov 19 2013 - 01:00
Paying the price for facing down austerity scoldsPunishment of France reflects ideological agenda, writes Paul KrugmanTue Nov 12 2013 - 01:00
Germany beggaring its neighbours by running trade surplusExporters capitalising on weak euro instead of soaring deutschmarkTue Nov 05 2013 - 01:00
If US society believes government is always bad, that’s what it will getHealthcare reform is being stymied because of an ideology that is hostile to any kind of state supportTue Oct 29 2013 - 01:00
Right relies on lousy arguments to undermine ObamacareConservative groups sabotage reform by blocking Medicaid expansionTue Oct 22 2013 - 01:00
In the game of political extortion, there is only one solution leftThe question is whether plunging markets and urgent appeals from big business will stiffen spinesTue Oct 15 2013 - 01:00
Incompetent Republicans bungle themselves into a cornerThe GOP is only just beginning to realise that Barack Obama will stand firm over the shutdownTue Oct 08 2013 - 12:46
Rebels without a clue put the world economy at riskA US government default could cause financial catastropheTue Oct 01 2013 - 09:03
Republicans promote the freedom to go hungryThe GOP’s war on food stamps shows how mean-spirited they areTue Sept 24 2013 - 01:00
Cost of Fed’s potential policy ‘taper’ may be jobsTalk of slowing the purchase of long-term bonds might risk the economic recoveryTue Sept 17 2013 - 01:01
Conservatism in the US has become a sort of cultRepublicans show a near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive, thanks to conservative ‘experts’ who offer them a steady stream of misinformationTue Sept 10 2013 - 06:00
Love for labour lost as respect for workers can’t even be fakedIt wasn’t always about the hot dogs. Originally, believe it or not, Labor Day actually had something to do with showing respect for labour.Mon Sept 02 2013 - 17:55
Steve Ballmer’s exit from Microsoft part of the rise and fall of dynastiesCreative destruction means monopolies do not last foreverTue Aug 27 2013 - 01:00
Republican failure to grasp basics of health reform will prove costlyRepublicans who deluded their supporters into believing that Obamacare won’t work will probably pay a large personal priceTue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
How Milton Friedman disappeared as a right-wing iconThe free-market apostle’s economics are too nuanced and realistic for the modern rightTue Aug 13 2013 - 01:00
Republicans have become detached from the real worldThe modern Grand Old Party is lost in fantasyTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00
How urban sprawl is stretching the land of opportunity to breaking pointA study shows that in many major US cities disadvantaged workers are stranded far from the dream of being upwardly mobileTue Jul 30 2013 - 07:00
Detroit: let’s not let this discussion get hijacked Greek-styleThe city does seem to have had bad governance, but for the most part it was an innocent victim of market forcesTue Jul 23 2013 - 01:00
Republican glee at suffering poor terrible to beholdThe monstrous farm Bill the House of Representatives passed last week shows its mean-spiritednessTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
GOP’s war on the unemployed is cruel and counterproductiveCutting of benefits a case of mean-spiritedness converging with bad economic analysisTue Jul 02 2013 - 01:00
Stop using the future as an excuse for inaction on the US economyLong-term fiscal projections should be seen mainly as especially boring science fictionMon Jun 17 2013 - 17:01
New normal is an unacceptable world for the unemployedMessage to policymakers: do your jobs and stop shruggingTue Jun 11 2013 - 01:16
Outlook for US social security not that badIt’s time to stop obsessing about paying benefits to retirees in 2035 and focussing on providing jobs for unemployed AmericansTue Jun 04 2013 - 12:00
Obamacare may turn out a big successMany Republican governors and legislators doing all they can to sabotage reformMon May 27 2013 - 18:10
Brush aside talk of bubbles and get back to workWhat is a bubble, anyway? I’d define it as a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the futureTue May 14 2013 - 01:00
The chutzpah caucus keeps banging the austerity drumThe notion that stimulus spending is difficult to stop is a fantasyMon May 06 2013 - 17:55
Drive for austerity loses intellectual fig leafNow remains a very bad time for spending cutsTue Apr 30 2013 - 06:00
Intellectual foundations of austerity show subsidenceThe Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco needs to be seen in the broader context of austerity maniaTue Apr 23 2013 - 06:00
Bitcoin battiness: the doomed hope for a pristine monetary standardThe fact that proponents of the ‘digital currency’ – the Winklevosses among them – use language similar to goldbug rhetoric is no coincidenceTue Apr 16 2013 - 06:00
Obama budget: mere theatre so long as Republicans portray Obamacare as anti-freedomWhen it comes to the main obstacle remaining to more or less universal health coverage, rhetoric is all the right hasMon Apr 08 2013 - 18:17
California dreaming is becoming a reality as Republicans lose the plotThe state’s problems bear no resemblance to the death-by-liberalism storyline the California-bashers keep peddlingMon Apr 01 2013 - 21:52
Global capitalism on track to become substantially less globalCyprus crisis: unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experimentMon Mar 25 2013 - 19:00
Iraq war debacle should make us sceptical of consensus and supposed authorityWar created regime that is closer to TehranTue Mar 19 2013 - 06:00
Big Government is fine if profits line the right pocketsConservatives like to say that their position is all about economic freedom, and hence making government’s role in general, and…Tue Mar 05 2013 - 00:00
Not looking good for the enforcer of austerity in ItalyTwo months ago, when Mario Monti stepped down as Italy’s prime minister, the Economist opined that “the coming election campaign…Tue Feb 26 2013 - 00:00
