Today's Fresh Blogs...

• The Substance Thing

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:52 am

  Tags: American Idiot, Times Editorials, George The Liar, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 6, 2007 Two presidential elections ago, the conventional wisdom said that George W. Bush was a likable, honest fellow. But those of us who actually analyzed what he was saying about policy came to a different conclusion namely, that he was irresponsible and deeply dishonest. His numbers didn't

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• A Test for Democrats

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:31 am

  Tags: Times Editorials, S Chip, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 3, 2007 It's been a good Democrats, bad Democrats kind of week. The bill expanding children's health insurance that just passed in the House makes you want to stand up and cheer. Reports that Senator Charles Schumer opposes plans to close the hedge fund tax loophole make you want to sit down and

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• Very Scary Things

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:12 pm

  Tags: Housing Bubble, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 10, 2007 In September 1998, the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, a giant hedge fund, led to a meltdown in the financial markets similar, in some ways, to what's happening now. During the crisis in '98, I attended a closed-door briefing given by a senior Federal Reserve official, who laid

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• It's All About Them

  Published: August 12, 2007, 11:28 pm

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Source Ny Times, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 13, 2007 Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your father's political campaign.Last week, at one of Mitt Romney's Ask Mitt forums, a woman in the audience asked Mr. Romney whether any of his five sons are serving in the military and, if not, when they plan to

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• Workouts, Not Bailouts

  Published: August 17, 2007, 5:01 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 17, 2007 In April, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, declared that all the signs he saw indicated that the housing market was at or near the bottom. Earlier this month he was still insisting that problems caused by the meltdown in the market for subprime mortgages were largely

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• It's a Miserable Life

  Published: August 20, 2007, 4:27 am

  Tags: Mortgage Crisis, Krugman Paul, Times Select, Countrywide Mortgage

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 20, 2007 Last week the scene at branches of Countrywide Bank, with crowds of agitated depositors trying to withdraw their money, looked a bit like the bank run in the classic holiday movie It's a Wonderful Life. As it happens, Countrywide's customers were overreacting. True, the bank is owned

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• A Socialist Plot

  Published: August 27, 2007, 2:08 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Times Op Eds, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 27, 2007 Suppose, for a moment, that the Heritage Foundation were to put out a press release attacking the liberal view that even children whose parents could afford to send them to private school should be entitled to free government-run education.They'd have a point: many American families with

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• Seeking Willie Horton

  Published: August 24, 2007, 1:53 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Giuliani Rudy, Times Opinion, Romney Mitt, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 24, 2007 So now Mitt Romney is trying to Willie Hortonize Rudy Giuliani. And thereby hangs a tale the tale, in fact, of American politics past and future, and the ultimate reason Karl Rove's vision of a permanent Republican majority was a foolish fantasy.Willie Horton, for those who don't

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• Katrina All the Time

  Published: August 31, 2007, 2:55 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Times Op Eds, Katrina, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 31, 2007 Two years ago today, Americans watched in horror as a great city drowned, and wondered what had happened to their country. Where was FEMA? Where was the National Guard? Why wasn't the government of the world's richest, most powerful nation coming to the aid of its own citizens?What we

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• Snow Job in the Desert

  Published: September 3, 2007, 2:56 am

  Tags: Iraq War, Krugman Paul, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 3, 2007 In February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell, addressing the United Nations Security Council, claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He did not, in fact, present any actual evidence, just pictures of buildings with big arrows pointing at them

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• Time to Take a Stand

  Published: September 7, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Iraq War, Krugman Paul, Dave Petraeus, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 7, 2007 Here's what will definitely happen when Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress next week: he'll assert that the surge has reduced violence in Iraq as long as you don't count Sunnis killed by Sunnis, Shiites killed by Shiites, Iraqis killed by car bombs and people shot in the

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• Where's My Trickle?

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:22 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Times Op Eds, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 10, 2007 Four years ago the Bush administration, exploiting the political bounce it got from the illusion of success in Iraq, pushed a cut in capital-gains and dividend taxes through Congress. It was an extremely elitist tax cut even by Bush-era standards: the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says

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• A Surge, and Then a Stab

  Published: September 14, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Times Op Eds, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 14, 2007 To understand what's really happening in Iraq, follow the oil money, which already knows that the surge has failed.Back in January, announcing his plan to send more troops to Iraq, President Bush declared that America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.

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• Sad Alan's Lament

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:03 am

  Tags: Krugman Paul, Greenspan Alan, Times Op Eds, Times Select

  PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 17, 2007 When President Bush first took office, it seemed unlikely that he would succeed in getting his proposed tax cuts enacted. The questionable nature of his installation in the White House seemed to leave him in a weak political position, while the Senate was evenly balanced between the

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