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Paul Krugman On Why We Should NOT Raise Interest Rates

By on February 7, 2012 in Economics, General Discussion

This is relating to a recent discussion/argument that Diogene and I have been having.   Paul Krugman’s NYT editorial of yesterday addresses the very question, and Krugman explains why he thinks it would be a terrible blunder to raise interest rates in the present economic environment. Unfortunately, I cannot link you to it, but if [...]

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Roberts on Bernanke, et.al

By on September 27, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion

I posed the question in my Bernanke post (‘Continuing Our Argument’) whether commentators on the left-progressive side were opposed to the Fed’s interventions or neutral (feeling that not enough had been done and perhaps wishing for more). Here’s one of the economists I follow, Paul Craig Roberts, and he seems pretty firmly is in the [...]

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Continuing our argument on the Fed’s role

By on September 23, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion

I wanted to run this by the board and see what kind of reaction it gets. Leroy and I have had a longstanding argument re: the role of the Federal Reserve in getting us out of the economic swamp we’ve been in since 2008, or at least ameliorating conditions for the people. He sees the [...]

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