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With inflation checked, a new round of federal spending can create millions of new jobs

...should therefore be restoring full employment. This is a relatively easy thing to do. As Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman aptly put it: "It's like having a dead battery in a car, and while there may be a lot wrong with the car, you...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-06
Opinion
The Indie Bestseller List

...by Jonah Lehrer9. "Let's Pretend This Never Happened," by Jenny Lawson10. "End This Depression Now!," by Paul Krugman TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION1. "Fifty Shades of Grey," by E.L. James2. "Fifty Shades Darker," by E.L. James3...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-17/indie-bestseller-list
Art
Endless economic growth is its own Ponzi scheme

...Americans. However, there are similarities between the two that makes Perry's analogy worth considering. In 1996 Paul Krugman, a liberal columnist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote that the redistribution of wealth occurs...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-22/endless-economic-growth-its-own-ponzi
Opinion
Coda: Code for a Trojan horse

...to the loss of tens of thousands of American factories and millions of American jobs. According to Nobel economist Paul Krugman, China's currency manipulation alone costs America up to 1.5 percent of its GDP every year, and Economic Policy...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-12-15/coda-code-trojan-horse
Opinion
Con: 'Green energy' is the best route to profitable public investment

...of continued growth in wind power and other sectors..Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently cautioned against only counting jobs gained while ignoring jobs lost. Of course, there were still 13.1...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-01-13/con-green-energy-best-route-profitabl
Opinion
America avoids Europe's austerity nightmare

...happen: such programs push depressed economies even deeper into depression," Nobel-winning Princeton economist Paul Krugman wrote in his New York Times column this week about what he called Europe's "economic suicide."America should take...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-23/america-avoids-europes-austerity-nigh
Opinion
Time to protect Main Street

...need do is take a small glimpse into American history.In his New York Times editorial "Why We Regulate", Economist Paul Krugman reminds us that "the risks taken by banks are borne in large part by taxpayers and the economy as a whole" and as...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-20/time-protect-main-street
Opinion
Discredited survey pushed myth of employers dropping health plans

...still proven to be much more efficient than private insurance. As Nobel Laureate economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently pointed out, from 1969 -2009, Medicare spending per person rose 400 percent, adjusted for inflation; private...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-07-21/discredited-survey-pushed-myth-employ
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IPAB set up to make hard choices Congress dodges

...necessary" to keep the U.S. in the forefront of civilized nations.As Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently noted: "We have to do something about health care costs, which means that we have to find a way to start...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-04-0
Opinion
Energy bill misses some opportunities

The following editorial first appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speaks for many critics when he says the energy bill that recently passed in Congress is "simply an exercise in corporate welfare...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080805/opi_20050808001.shtml
Opinion

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