Paul Krugman Quotes Talking Heads

Coming next week:

"The center of the Bush administration's complex of lies about the war in Iraq is a delicate and breakable thing, like a heart of glass..."

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not the neocons.

I like it too.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/who-took-the-money-away/

p-krugs came to cambridge this week to talk about keynes and i didn't even know it :/

From 2002: Really?

The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

Oops, wrong forum...

i love paul krugman

The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, psycho killer qu'est que c'est fafafa fa fa fafafa fa fa..

There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear

Krugman line in the NYT quoting some other group

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/friday-night-music-cat-power/

about 50% of his posts involve the arcade fire at this point

we need to get his take on the gaslight anthem

uh ok paul what the hell?

never mind i should've posted this on an ile thread. carry on!

"My God! What have I done?"

https://i.imgur.com/NQWQkh2.png

lol at Krugman linking to a Pitchfork review of a Grimes album