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Paul is my favorite economist. I read his posts at his blog "The Conscience of a Liberal" every day.   He writes about economic...

The reality, first, is that the deficit scolds — who are, after all, making a living by scolding — depend on constant warnings of imminent...

It’s looking increasingly as if House Republicans won’t crash the world economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, at least not right ...

Whoo-hoo! An upper-class riot over the fiscal cliff legislation?  So asks Brian Kilmeade.  Not that the rich would be out in the street...

It sure looks as if we’re going over the fiscal cliff, but that may be the least of our problems. The debt ceiling is a much bigger and mor...

Paul Krugman is fairly certain Bobby Jindal doesn't understand the fiscal cliff, based on a recent op-ed by the Louisiana governor. ....

Just a thought: if you follow the pundit discussion of matters fiscal, you get the definite impression that some kinds of deficit reductio...

When I left for England, I fervently hoped that the matter of possible default by the US federal government would be settled by the time I r...

Paul Krugman in the New York Times : The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economi...