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Big dump! Most of them are short. Maybe leave a tab open and work through gradually?
General themes or special notes:
* bond market is not a problem (even the Standard and Poor warning about US debt had no effect), inflation is not a problem, unemployment is the huge problem. Naturally Very Serious People in DC are worried about bond and inflation vigilantes and no one talks about unemployment.
* The deficit, especially as the stimulus programs tail off, is because of a big slump in revenue -- from my own reading, from $2.7 trillion 3 years go to $2.3 trillion -- and rise in income security spending, i.e. unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicaid. I.e., not from any new programs Obama has irresponsibly created, but from the back that employment has collapsed and we try to keep people from starving.
* Paul Ryan is a flim flam man who's Very Serious Budget Plan calls for $3 trillion of tax cuts yet claims to be revenue neutral, due to closing of loopholes which are never actually identified. Meanwhile progressives do have a budget plan, that would actually balance the budget. Yes, through raising taxes., to levels still well short of other developed countries.
* 400 people get 10% of all capital gains
* UK and Ireland are disproving the austerity plans that Very Serious People advocate, and proving Keynesianism. But no one understands Keynesianism any more, or listens to those who do.
* Raising the Medicare eligibility age: hey, who doesn't live as long, and tend to take jobs that lead to more health problems earlier? That's right, poor people.
Keynes and central planning and long run, with link to disturbing Hayek
interview
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/on-not-reading-keynes/
again, no central planning
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/in-the-long-run-keynes-is-dead/
Krugman advocating budget surpluses
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/me-on-surpluses/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/hard-keynesianism/
commodity price slump and inflationists
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/a-commodity-peak/
House Republicans lying about their Medicare overhaul
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/health/policy/02medicare.html?_r=1&hpw
why the deficiit? revenue slump
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/origins-of-the-deficit/
and rise in income security because of recession
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/john-taylor-and-the-zombies/
hedge fund donations and lack of regulation
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/money-talks-regulation-walks/
EU mishandling of banking crisis, false sell as fiscal irresponsibility
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fiscalization-and-hellenization/
400 people got 10% of all capital gains in America
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/who-benefits-from-bubbles/
Paul Ryan's revenue-neutral $3 trillion tax cut
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/ryan-and-heritage/
dark age of macroeconomics
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/notes-on-the-evolution-of-economic-ignorance/
bond confidence, inflation, unemployment
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/visualizing-priorities/
Paul Ryan flim flam
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/flim-flammed/
UK proves the failure of austerity measures
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/uk-not-ok/
so does Ireland
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/the-confidence-fairy-has-taken-a-leave-of-absence/
raising Medicare age hurts the poor more
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/raising-the-medicare-age/
US as insurance company with an army, and budget cut targets
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/an-insurance-company-with-an-army/
the progressive budget plan that actually balances the budget
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/the-progressive-budget-alternative/
patients are not consumers
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/patients-are-not-consumers/
college Krugman read David Hume, not Ayn Rand
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/hume-day/
commodity price rise, not inflation spiral
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/the-inflation-monster-under-the-bed/
Bush and Yoo and torture as a positive
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/shadow-of-the-torturers/
General themes or special notes:
* bond market is not a problem (even the Standard and Poor warning about US debt had no effect), inflation is not a problem, unemployment is the huge problem. Naturally Very Serious People in DC are worried about bond and inflation vigilantes and no one talks about unemployment.
* The deficit, especially as the stimulus programs tail off, is because of a big slump in revenue -- from my own reading, from $2.7 trillion 3 years go to $2.3 trillion -- and rise in income security spending, i.e. unemployment insurance, food stamps, Medicaid. I.e., not from any new programs Obama has irresponsibly created, but from the back that employment has collapsed and we try to keep people from starving.
* Paul Ryan is a flim flam man who's Very Serious Budget Plan calls for $3 trillion of tax cuts yet claims to be revenue neutral, due to closing of loopholes which are never actually identified. Meanwhile progressives do have a budget plan, that would actually balance the budget. Yes, through raising taxes., to levels still well short of other developed countries.
* 400 people get 10% of all capital gains
* UK and Ireland are disproving the austerity plans that Very Serious People advocate, and proving Keynesianism. But no one understands Keynesianism any more, or listens to those who do.
* Raising the Medicare eligibility age: hey, who doesn't live as long, and tend to take jobs that lead to more health problems earlier? That's right, poor people.
Keynes and central planning and long run, with link to disturbing Hayek
interview
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/on-not-reading-keynes/
again, no central planning
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/in-the-long-run-keynes-is-dead/
Krugman advocating budget surpluses
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/me-on-surpluses/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/hard-keynesianism/
commodity price slump and inflationists
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/a-commodity-peak/
House Republicans lying about their Medicare overhaul
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/health/policy/02medicare.html?_r=1&hpw
why the deficiit? revenue slump
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/origins-of-the-deficit/
and rise in income security because of recession
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/john-taylor-and-the-zombies/
hedge fund donations and lack of regulation
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/money-talks-regulation-walks/
EU mishandling of banking crisis, false sell as fiscal irresponsibility
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fiscalization-and-hellenization/
400 people got 10% of all capital gains in America
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/who-benefits-from-bubbles/
Paul Ryan's revenue-neutral $3 trillion tax cut
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/ryan-and-heritage/
dark age of macroeconomics
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/notes-on-the-evolution-of-economic-ignorance/
bond confidence, inflation, unemployment
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/visualizing-priorities/
Paul Ryan flim flam
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/flim-flammed/
UK proves the failure of austerity measures
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/uk-not-ok/
so does Ireland
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/the-confidence-fairy-has-taken-a-leave-of-absence/
raising Medicare age hurts the poor more
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/raising-the-medicare-age/
US as insurance company with an army, and budget cut targets
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/an-insurance-company-with-an-army/
the progressive budget plan that actually balances the budget
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/the-progressive-budget-alternative/
patients are not consumers
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/patients-are-not-consumers/
college Krugman read David Hume, not Ayn Rand
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/hume-day/
commodity price rise, not inflation spiral
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/the-inflation-monster-under-the-bed/
Bush and Yoo and torture as a positive
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/shadow-of-the-torturers/
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Read the People's History of the United States this weekend...
Date: 2011-05-09 14:57 (UTC)From:location appartement
Date: 2011-05-10 01:02 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)