Economist Paul Krugman explained that Build Back Better is a massive investment in America’s future that will change generations of lives. Video: Paul Krugman explains why Biden's Build Back Better is so important to the country's future. pic.twitter.com/01CFBG76r4 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 3, 2021 Krugman said on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber:…
Ron DeSantis has spent much of the last year congratulating himself on how he has handled COVID-19. The Florida governor has leaned in hard to the culture war aspect of the pandemic. Not only has he made a huge deal of fighting against mask mandates, he went as far as fundraising off shirts that slammed…
The “big lie†is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.
Watching the senate, under the callous and inhumane rule of Mitch McConnell, fail to respond sufficiently and urgently to the dire suffering and needs of out-of-work Americans, largely denying their reality, brought to mind a scene from American author William Dean Howells’ 1890 novel A Hazard of New Fortunes. Howells narrates in the novel the…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned on Wednesday that the 2020 election will be the most dangerous for the country since the divisions preceding the Civil War. Krugman took to Twitter to argue that President Donald Trump’s own attitude, combined with his supporters readiness to commit acts of violence, meant the next few weeks could…
Paul Krugman doesn’t see how daily briefings on Covid-19 could possibly help Donald Trump win the 2020 election. The event is returning because the President thinks it will help him in the polls. The Nobel Prize-winning economist took to Twitter on Tuesday to cast serious doubt on the usefulness of the briefings, both for Trump’s…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman made the case this morning that Americans are very open to raising taxes on the rich despite protestations from billionaires — and many Republicans — to the contrary. And his conclusions seem to be supported by numerous public opinion surveys conducted over the past two weeks. The New York Times…
In a new column in the New York Times, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman asked a question that many others have asked about Donald Trump’s White House: Why are his top advisers sticking around when it is apparent that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has been gathering evidence of many different Trump crimes, and the…
Republican political strategist and campaign consultant Ed Rollins was on the Fox Business News program hosted by Lou Dobbs and stuck his sexist foot in his mouth as he attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The ancient right-wing operative dismissively referred to the 29-year-old Congresswoman as “the little girl†with a big “mouth.†It didn’t take…
Paul Krugman warns that we should not “presume that Ryan and company have any idea what they’re doing.”
“Prediction: if GOP health bill goes down in flames, Trump will deny that he ever supported it and place all blame on Congressional Rs.”
Paul Krugman described the GOP’s Obamacare replacement as, “It’s not Obamacare 2.0. It’s Obamacare 0.5 – a half-assed attempt to preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money”
Listing Trump’s offenses, Krugman says “If he were a Democrat, impeachment hearings would already be underway…Our whole system is now tainted”
“The big risk is still that the media will start to normalize, and worse, become intimidated and obsequious. Don’t let it happen!”
James Madison said representatives should be able to “withstand the temporary delusion” to “give time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.”
“Oh my God. These are spoiled children playing with loaded guns…Now they’re trying to walk it back…How are we going to survive years of this?”
“A national 1 percent swing would have changed everything…it would have looked like a solid mandate for HRC”
“Corruption, scandals, gutting of ethics rules aren’t new; they’ve been the GOP way going all the way back to Reagan. “
For the second time in a week Charles Schumer aligned himself with Trump in a portent the Democrat’s opposition to Trump is faltering.
We know how we feel about the potential collapse of our own republic, and what needs to be done in answer to the threat.
“Budget director appears to be John Bircher and conspiracy theorist (but aren’t they all?…Birchers want return to gold and silver, Mulvaney seems to agree.”
“The erosion of democratic foundations has been underway for decades, and there’s no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover.”
“It will either exploit a real terrorist attack or involve a US version of Falklands War — picking a fight with foreign power to rally home base.”
“Discussion of economic policy is now monopolized by people who have been wrong about everything, have learned nothing from the experience”
Trump’s plan calls for huge tax credits: billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest in ‘approved’ projects which they would end up owning.
“We’re about to enter, or may already have entered, an era of corrupt governance unprecedented in U.S. history.”
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.â€
Donald Trump has been called, and Paul Krugman says, “I suspect Donald Trump is feeling a bit sandbagged right now.”
“Because of the severity of these violations, Wells Fargo is paying the largest penalty the CFPB has ever imposed.”
Economist Paul Krugman exposes Vladmir Putin’s weak economic progress compared to the steady climb of the US economy under President Obama
Republicans don’t care about shunning racism, preserving democracy and religious freedom or avoiding nuclear war because they support Trump.
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored”
Paul Krugman dismantled 35 years of failed Republican economic policy in two minutes during a debate with Grover Norquist.
In 2012, Mitt Romney was making almost the exact same economic proposals he is now accusing Donald Trump of making today
Establishment candidate and Breitbart target by default, it is probably less who he is that has gotten Rubio this far than who he isn’t
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky joined to sound the alarm about Republican being a threat not only to Americans but to human survival
Paul Krugman has entered the healthcare reform fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, a fact which will no doubt disappoint many progressives.
Krugman says the GOP establishment is determined “to take whatever didn’t work from 2001 to 2008 and do it again in a more extreme form”
Trump is simply a reiteration of Bush; the man who contributed to the dumbing down of America so maniacal conservatives could appear sane
According to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, Republicans will go to any length to stop American involvement in a climate deal and will hasten the world population’s demise in the process; left alone the planet will fix itself in a few centuries. Krugman’s assessment is incomplete; there is more motivation behind Republican opposition to saving the Earth’s population than simply rejecting science.
Paul Krugman noted that since Barack Obama was sworn in as President, Republicans and conservatives have done nothing but “warn about imminent catastrophe.”
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy dose of Draconian austerity. Those features epitomize the most recent budget proposal Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman officially and accurately labeled as a “trillion dollar con job.”
Although warmonger Netanyahu does want America to wage war against Iran on Israel’s behalf, he had a different motivation to save his job as Israel’s leader.
Because Republicans depend on “the widespread ignorance of objective reality,” their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America’s uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.
For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to the majority of Americans regardless of their party affiliation except for one small detail; he represents the federal government.
Pundits and lay people alike seem to agree that while we shouldn’t expect an overnight turnaround in global energy policy, the oil and coal syndicate which controls the Republican party, and to a great extent, the conversation about America’s non-approach to climate change, is on notice.
There are very few nonpartisan, unbiased institutions left to us. But we always have the Congressional Budget Office. Or do we?
Paul Krugman of The New York Times pointed out why the increasing ACA numbers are snowballing into a disaster for the Republican Party.
Paul Krugman argued that although President Obama has been unable to get anything done since Republicans took over the House, “his first two years make him the most consequential president in — you know, since Ronald Reagan.”
“The widening divide in incomes between the poor and rich poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade” according to the World Economic Forum
Today it is President Obama fighting Republicans to give all Americans the opportunities Dr. King sought for people of color, and besides not acknowledging income inequality even exists, Republicans are redoubling their advocacy of Reagan policies.
The movement away from “serious” economic butchering that only serves to enrich the wealthy and kick the troubled when they’re down, no longer holds the same appeal.
A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the life out of the population, and holding back the economy.
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is never afraid to ask the tough questions. Though his Times blog bears the name “The Conscience of Liberal,” the title is sort of an unfortunate misnomer.
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to decimate the economic life out of you.
On ABC’s This Week, Paul Krugman opened up a can of whoop-facts on desperate Republicans who are desperately hanging on to the belief that the 2014 election will be about Obamacare.
On ABC’s This Week, Paul Krugman perfectly described the Republicans as people who are ignorant on policy who don’t understand anything.
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
This week Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced tech companies and employers who censor or punish online ugliness. But the internet is no longer a frontier.
Progressives sometimes criticize the south as backward, but that’s not entirely fair. For example, Louisiana Republicans have developed time travel
When the Tea Party emerged four summers ago, many of us dismissed them as a corporate-seeded astroturf movement. We were wrong. The GOP’s grassroots are the fringe.
You’ve probably seen the word “derp” floating around lately. You may wonder what it means … and why we seem to be living in Derpica.
Paul Krugman smacked down the Republican lie that Obama hasn’t reached out to them by pointing out that every time the president tries to reach out, he gets his fingers ripped off.
For the past two years under Republican rule, America relinquished its leadership position to Europe and became a devotee of austerity economics and followed the Eurozone into economic contraction.
Paul Krugman got a taste of what President Obama deals with every single day during his debate with Joe Scarborough on Charlie Rose.
Paul Krugman completely gutted the NRA, and in the process became the the latest example of the left’s absolute lack of fear of the gun lobby.
The “Liberal Media”, is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate screed that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda.
Paul Krugman laid out why the left is standing with President Obama in refusing to negotiate on the debt ceiling.
Paul Krugman explains to Bill Moyers how a spending program could solve the recession in just two years.
On ABC’s This Week. Paul Krugman is responded to the Republicans’ deficit bluster by calling out their empty fiscal cliff proposal.
The American people are demand that the wealthy lose their lower tax rates. Instead of accepting this reality, Republicans are going off the rails and heading toward irrelevance.
Budget negotiation drama is getting more intense as the fiscal cliff or ‘austerity bomb’ approaches. The stakes for the poor couldn’t be higher
When the conservative panelists on ABC’s This Week tried to push Romney’s lies about the economy, they were shot down by a one man wrecking crew named Paul Krugman.
Was it the day Romney lost the election? That’s one of the reactions to Mitt Romney’s 47 percent secret video.
So Romney picked Paul Ryan, eh? And at the decidedly unmedia-worthy time of 7 a.m. ET on a Saturday morning. Who’s staffing newsrooms on early Saturday mornings? Well, Clyde, the 75-year-old ex- 6 & 11 p.m. anchorman now doing weekends and still threatening an age discrimination suit if they let him go and ace weekend…
On CBS, Paul Krugman explained how Obama got the phrase wrong, but his point about private versus public sector job health was correct.
In an age when the mainstream media treats fiction and fact as equal, Paul Krugman confronted the Romney campaign today and called the Ryan budget a fraud.
On Bill Maher’s Real Time Paul Krugman went head to head with Arthur Laffer, and destroyed every conservative argument for austerity.
On CNN, Paul Krugman called out Mitt Romney today for spouting nonsense about the economy and explained why Romney’s plan to do what Greece did won’t bring prosperity to America.
When Paul Krugman was confronted with the right wing myth that lower business taxes create jobs on ABC’s This Week, the Nobel Prize winner pounced a delivered some economic straight talk.
Paul Krugman was on ABC’s This Week this morning, where he pulled no punches when discussing the GOP’s argument against Wall St. reform. He called, Mitch McConnell’s argument against financial reform as, “the most dishonest argument ever made in the history of politics, which is the claim that having regulation of the banks is actually bailing out the banks.”
