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  • Paul Krugman: Progressive family values

    26-09-2016 21:50:00

    Child care economics is in some ways like health economics. We can't trust unregulated markets to deliver a decent outcome

  • Paul Krugman: Walmart's visible hand

    03-03-2015 21:47:00

    The retailer's wage hike seems to reflect the same forces that led to the Great Compression, albeit in a much weaker form

  • Amazon's monopsony is not OK

    20-10-2014 23:58:00

    Amazon, which dominates online book sales, is acting as a monopsonist, a dominant buyer with the power to push prices down

  • Paul Krugman: Righteousness killed the economy

    13-10-2014 21:44:00

    In Europe, austerity policies have been driven less by economic analysis than by Germany's moral indignation over the notion that irresponsible borrowers might not face the full consequences of their actions

  • The dismal science

    28-09-2014 22:25:00

    The economics profession has not, to say the least, covered itself in glory these past six years. Hardly any economists predicted the 2008 crisis - and the handful who did tended to be people who also predicted crises that didn't happen. More ...

  • The fear economy

    28-12-2013 21:16:00

    When the economy is weak, workers have a very weak hand and employers are in a position to work them harder, pay them less, or both

  • Paul Krugman: Addicted to the apocalypse

    26-10-2013 21:49:00

    Washington has spent the past three-plus years in terror of a debt crisis that has yet to happen, and, in fact, can't happen to a country like the United States, which has its own currency and borrows

  • Money, gender and 'gravitas'

    02-08-2013 22:48:00

    Campaigns against Janet Yellen for chair of the US Federal Reserve are both sexist and wrong-headed

  • Japan the model

    25-05-2013 22:23:00

    A short-term boost to growth won't cure all of Japan's ills, but, if it can be achieved, it can be the first step toward a much brighter future

  • Lust for gold

    13-04-2013 21:49:00

    News flash: Recent declines in the price of gold, which is off about 17 per cent from its peak, show that this price can go down as well as up. You may consider this an obvious point, but, as an article in The Times on Thursday reports, it has come ...

  • When prophecy fails

    26-12-2012 00:39:11

    The key thing we need to understand is that the prophets of fiscal disaster are at this point effectively members of a doomsday cult

  • The big budget mumble

    08-12-2012 00:41:34

    In the ongoing battle of the budget, President Obama has done something very cruel. Declaring that this time he won’t negotiate with himself, he has refused to lay out a proposal reflecting what he thinks Republicans want. Instead, he has ...

  • Grand old planet

    04-12-2012 00:27:09

    Earlier this week, GQ magazine published an interview with Senator Marco Rubio, whom many consider a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, in which Rubio was asked how old the earth is. After declaring “I’m not a ...

  • The blackmail caucus

    04-11-2012 00:58:48

    'Vote for Romney or else' statements miss the fact that Obama has already achieved a great deal

  • Pointing towards prosperity?

    28-10-2012 00:33:52

    Obama may not be as bold as wed like, but he isn't actively misleading voters the way Romney is