Workers pay as prophets of austerity gain swayMany economists have decided to forget for political reasons that austerity in the face of depression is a bad ideaTue Jan 31 2012 - 00:00
Big US problems of housing bust and excessive private debt are finally easingOPINION: Home sales are up, unemployment claims are down and builders’ confidence is risingTue Jan 24 2012 - 00:00
US must not stay quiet about income inequalityAmerica is no longer the land of opportunity for children of the poorTue Jan 17 2012 - 00:00
Republicans mad as hatters over rules regulating use of mercuryHERE’S WHAT I wanted for Christmas: something that would make us both healthier and richerTue Dec 27 2011 - 00:00
Will the financial crisis get a new epicentre in China?ANALYSIS: CONSIDER THE following picture: recent growth has relied on a huge construction boom fuelled by surging real estate…Tue Dec 20 2011 - 00:00
Democracy and the euro may be casualties of Europe's crisisOPINION: IT’S TIME to start calling the current situation what it is: a depressionTue Dec 13 2011 - 00:00
America must change course or follow EU on path to ruinOPINION: CAN THE euro be saved? Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek defaultTue Dec 06 2011 - 00:00
Raising taxes on rich would help reduce deficitANALYSIS: THE SUPERCOMMITTEE was a superdud – and we should be gladTue Nov 29 2011 - 00:00
We must topple these dangerous romantics to save the world economyEconomic discourse is being badly distorted by ideologues and wishful thinkersTue Nov 22 2011 - 00:00
Republican dogma a threat to healthcare system that worksANALYSIS: HEALTHCARE IN the United States is remarkably diverseTue Nov 15 2011 - 00:00
What the frackers forgot to tell us about the shining example of solar powerOPINION: FOR DECADES, the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing…Tue Nov 08 2011 - 00:00
Europe might be better off if euro collapses sooner rather than laterOPINION: Greece is no more than a grim sideshow – the clear and present danger is posed by ItalyTue Oct 25 2011 - 01:00
Wall Street's whining cannot be taken seriouslyANALYSIS: It is harder than ever to see what, if anything, financiers are doing to earn such lavish salariesTue Oct 18 2011 - 01:00
Occupy Wall Street protesters not the real extremists hereANALYSIS: IT REMAINS to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s directionTue Oct 11 2011 - 01:00
Time for US to get tough with China and other currency manipulatorsANALYSIS: We should take action against countries that are keeping their currencies undervaluedTue Oct 04 2011 - 01:00
Fiscal austerity taking toll on future growth prospectsANALYSIS: The economy needs real help now, not hypothetical pay-offs in 10 years’ timeTue Sept 20 2011 - 01:00
The moral high ground will cost the ECB dearlyON THURSDAY Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank – Europe’s equivalent to Ben Bernanke – lost his …Tue Sept 13 2011 - 01:00
Confidence lacking as US tries to cut its way out of recessionOPINION: Experiences in Ireland and Britain show that austerity measures do not lead to recoverySat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00
Balanced budgets will not protect you if your banks are free to run wildContrary to one intellectual leader’s assertions, Europeans did not dither on deficitsSat Jan 29 2011 - 00:00
Obama spending spree a special delivery from Humbug ExpressAmerica’s right-wing media is highly adept at spewing propaganda until it becomes part of what “everyone knows”Mon Dec 27 2010 - 00:00
Republicans want story of Hamlet told without princeAbsolving the banks of any wrongdoing, and placing all the blame on meddling politicians is a travesty of the factsSat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Irish people punished for the sins of bankersOPINION: Irish citizens are bearing the burden of debts run up by wheeler-dealers seeking their own profitSat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
Simple self-interest behind bullys' objections to the FedOPINION: WHAT DO the government of China, the government of Germany and the Republican Party have in common? They're all trying…Sat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00
Obama's economic policy failed him because he tried to play safeOPINION: If the president won’t speak up for his own economic philosophy, who will?Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00
Obama's inadequate stimulus a political catastropheOPINION: If voters do turn against the Democrats, they will be choosing to make the crisis worseSat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00
Britain is boldly going in exactly the wrong directionAs has been shown in the past, trying to balance budgets while unemployment is high and inflation falling is not a good ideaSat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
Dodgy documents putting Americans out of homesOPINION: Mortgage servicers have been busily foreclosing on houses, but do they have the right?Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Trademark deception deployed on behalf of tax cutsOPINION: How can a giveaway to America’s richest be justified at a time when budget deficits prevail?Sat Aug 28 2010 - 01:00
Big bosses feeling unloved but hugs won't cure economy's illsObama is ‘demonising’ business, say lobbyists, cannily ignoring all evidence to the contrary, writes PAUL KRUGMANSat Jul 10 2010 - 01:00
