Krugman on recovery economics

This is the guy I’ve been listening to, and haven’t yet heard him say anything that has been seriously disproven. Picked at and disagreed with by the ‘true believers’, perhaps, but not disproven.

New York Times columnist and Nobel economist Paul Krugman comes to the Hudson Union Society to talk about the aftermath of the global economic crisis.

He discusses what it will take to make a full recovery, and explores how issues ranging from cap and trade legislation to healthcare reform will affect America’s economy.

Obama needs a lesson in Foghorn-style Ass Whuppin'

As a fan of economist, Paul Krugman, I get his blog posts on my Kindle, and lately he’s been referring back to some posts earlier this year (which I read), wherein he suggested more aggressive economic policies to remedy the financial crisis we’d found ourselves in. He wasn’t alone in this.

On a different tack, I’ve heard the same thing about healthcare reform. Please, Mr. President … bipartisanship is a hopeless dream. Be aggressive and shoot for the moon. But, this is ‘No drama, Obama’ we’re talking about, and it could foretell the trap he may find himself in after it’s too late to get out.

It’s the soft, soft, softly incremental approach that the more progressive Dems have been bitching about. They seemed to complain unfairly about the slowness of Obama’s approach, but I think what they were really touching on was this apparent timidity.

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